This collection will certainly stimulate further and better co-ordinated research into a topic of direct relevance to sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics. Editor(s): Dorian, Nancy C. Series Editor(s): Irvine, Judith T.; Schieffelin, Bambi B.; Goodwin, Marjorie Harness; Kuipers, Joel C.; Kulick, Don; Lucy, John; Ochs, Elinor; Silverstein, Michael. Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language. Num Pages: 460 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 840. . 1989. hardcover. . . . .

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Title: Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death: 7 (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, Series Number 7)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 052132405X
ISBN 13: 9780521324052
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Over the past 500 years, half the known languages of the world have vanished. This comprehensive overview of the study of contracting and dying languages, composed of twenty essays, investigates the wide scope of languages currently under threat of extinction. These disappearances occur in diverse speech communities where the expanding languages are both familiar, such as English or Spanish, and less familiar, such as Swedish, Thai and Arabic. The volume concludes with a look at how research into language obsolescence may affect other aspects of linguistics and anthropology--first and second language acquisition, historical linguistics, the study of pidgins and creoles, language and social process.

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Over the past 500 years, half the known languages of the world have vanished. This comprehensive overview of contracting and dying languages, investigates the broad scope currently under threat of extinction.

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