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| Other authors / contributors: | Duchêne, Alexandre.
Heller, Monica.
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| ISBN: | 9781847063229
1847063225
9781441111173
1441111174
1283271494
9781283271493
0826487459
9780826487452
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary: | Current academic discussions and public debates about language frequently focus on the importance of defending languages against various kinds of dangers. Many of these current debates attach great importance to linguistic diversity. The debates focus on defending institutionalized languages against multilingualism, or conversely defending minority languages against the incursion of larger ones, especially the spread of English. In both cases, languages are constructed as autonomous wholes, held to need defending against attack. This book challenges such a view of language, to argue that the d.
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| Other form: | Print version: Discourses of endangerment. London : Continuum, 2008 9781847063229
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| Standard no.: | 9781847063229
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