Search Results for: Linguistic Ecology

This book revisits and updates the concept of linguistic ecology, outlining applications to a variety of contact situations worldwide.

In this book, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region under the impact of colonization, westernization and modernization. By focus

The increasingly rapid destruction of the ecological systems that support life is calling into question some of the fundamental stories that we live by: stories

Thirty years ago a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen combined language with ecology. For Haugen, 'the ecology of language' meant the study o

It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This s