Language In Danger: How Langua
Author(s): Andrew Dalby
It is expected that a language will become extinct every two weeks of the the 21st century. Will languages continue to die out? If so, must culture continue to become more impoverished? This book explores the "life cycle" of languages: their birth, interaction and - especially - their death.
General Information
- :
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : UNKNOWN
- : 0.675
- : 30 May 2002
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Andrew Dalby
- : Hardback
- : 417.7
- : 352
- : 2 maps
More About The Product
Andrew Dalby is Honorary Librarian at the Institute of Linguists and author of Dictionary of Languages(Bloomsbury 1998). He also writes on food. He lives in France.
Prologue; language and our species; language and change; language and community; language and nation; how to become a global language; when we lose a language; the loss of diversity.
