Discourses of endangerment : ideology and interest in the defence of languages / edited by Alexandre Duchêne and Monica Heller.

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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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1. Discourses of endangerment: Sociolinguistics, globalization and social order / Monica Heller and Alexandre Duchene -- 2. Defending diversity: Staking out a common global interest? / Shaylih Muehlmann -- 3. Indigenous language endangerment and the unfinished business of nation states / Donna Patrick -- 4. Discourses of endangerment: Contexts and consequences of essentializing discourses / Alexandra Jaffe -- 5. Who wants to save 'le patois d'Évoíéne'? / Raphaël Maîltre and Marinette Matthey -- 6. Frangais, acadien, acadjonne: Competing discourses on language preservation along the shores of the Baie Sainte-Marie / Annette Boudreau and Use Dubois -- 7. The future of Catalan: Language endangerment and nationalist discourses in Catalonia / Joan Pujolar -- 8. Language endangerment, war and peace in Ireland and Northern Ireland / Tony Crowley -- 9. Voices of endangerment: A language ideological debate on the Swedish language / Tommaso M. Milani -- 10. Defending English in an English-dominant world: The Ideology of the 'Official English'movement in the United States / Ronald Schmidt, Sr -- 11. Protecting French: The view from France / Claudine Moïse -- 12. Embracing diversity for the sake of unity: Linguistic hegemony and the pursuit of total Spanish / José del Valle -- 13. Language endangerment and verbal hygiene: History, morality and politics / Deborah Cameron.

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