Vanishing Languages in Context : Ideological, Attitudinal and Social Identity Perspectives
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ISBN-10
3631670494
ISBN-13
9783631670491
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
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Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 6th, 2016
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
520 grams
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15.70 x 21.50 x 2.40 cms
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SociolinguisticsLiterary studies: generalSociety & culture: general
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The volume is concerned with sociolinguistic issues of language endangerment and globalization. In the light of increasingly complex and variable multilingual environments the book explores research areas such as language policy, linguistic inequalities and language attitudes. Case studies of endangered minority languages conclude the book.
This volume grew out of the 36th International LAUD Symposium, which was held in March 2014 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. There is general consensus among language experts that slightly more than half of today’s 7,000 languages are under severe threat of extinction even within fifty to one hundred years. The 13 papers contained in this volume explore the dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why this matters, and what can be done and achieved to document and support endangered languages especially in the context of an ever increasing globalized world. The issue of vanishing languages is discussed from a variety of methodologies and perspectives: sociolinguistics, language ecology, language contact, language policy/planning, attitudes and linguistic inequalities.
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