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Language Ecology

Ecolinguística: Revista brasileira de ecologia e linguagem, 2017
Language Ecology v. 1, n. 1, 2017. General Editors: Umberto Ansaldo & Lisa Lim. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Company. ISSN 2452-1949 / E-ISSN 2452-2147, 103p.
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Language Planning and Language Ecology

Current Issues in Language Planning, 2000
In an ecological approach language planning is seen as a process which is part of and closely interrelated with a large range of natural and cultural ecological factors. It is focused on the question of maintaining a maximum diversity of languages by seeking to identify those ecological factors that sustain linguistic diversity. Linguistic diversity in
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Language rules and language ecology

Language Sciences, 2014
Abstract A growing theoretical and research literature is challenging the presupposition, common to both ‘descriptive’ and ‘prescriptive’ linguistics, that rules are constitutive of language. This paper briefly surveys some of the arguments, and adopts a position that excludes rule-governedness as an inherent property of language. Nevertheless, rules
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Languages, Infrastructures, and Ecologies

Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric, 2022
This article reports on the three sessions of the 2021 ATTW Virtual Conference including the Keynote Address and connects them to three other sessions through the lens of social justice to navigate the intersections of language, access, material ecologies, and social infrastructures. Echoing the conference theme, I suggest that those sessions attend to
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Language Ecology

Norwegian scholar Einar Haugen proposed language ecology to study how languages historically present in a land or social setting interact with languages that arrive in this setting due to different forms of social and economic mobility, fueled by different forms of migration and imperialist policies around the globe.
Raúl Alberto Mora   +1 more
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ECOLOGY OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2005
ECOLOGY OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. Jonathan Leather and Jet van Dam (Eds.). Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003. Pp xiv + 225. $88.00 cloth. This volume contains 11 papers on various aspects of language acquisition both in first language (L1) and second language (L2) from an ecological perspective.
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The Ecology of Language

2000
Abstract We saw in the previous three chapters that the world contains a diversity of languages and peoples far greater than most people realize. This diversity is now under dramatic threat. In the next three chapters, we will give an account of how this situation came about.
Daniel Nettle, Suzanne Romaine
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Environment: Language Ecology and Language Death

2013
Global linguistic diversity is rapidly declining. As the world becomes less linguistically diverse, it is becoming culturally less diverse as well as the world’s tribes and languages are dying out or being assimilated into modern civilization because their habitats are being destroyed. At the same time the world is experiencing a substantial decline in
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