sociolinguistics endangered languages current issues future prospects endangered languages current issues future prospects isbn 0521 59102 3 hardback 6 x 9 380 pp lenore grenoble ed dartmouth college publisher cambridge university press 69 95 issue language loss currently focus much linguistic research edited volume brings together work theoretical linguists field linguists nonlinguist members minority communities provide integrated view language lost sociological economic well linguistic perspectives maps strategies applied native communities professional linguists face language endangerment several authors address understudied issue beyond linguistic system lost language becomes obsolescent contents preface part general issues 1 western language ideologies smalllanguage prospects nancy dorian 2 toward typology language endangerment lenore grenoble lindsay whaley part ii language community responses 3 technical emotional ideological issues reversing language shift examples southeast alaska nora richard dauenhauer 4 mayan efforts toward language preservation nora england 5 chronology mohawk language instruction kahnaw ke kaia titahkhe annette jacobs 6 language endangerment south america programmatic approach colette grinevald part iii lost language diversity 7 significance diversity language endangerment preservation marianne mithun 8 endangered languages importance linguistic diversity ken hale 9 living words cartoon translations longhouse texts limitations english christopher jocks 10 documenting rhetorical aesthetic expressive loss language shift anthony woodbury part iv mechanisms language loss 11 impact language variation accomodation theory language maintenance analysis shaba swahili andr e kapa nga 12 way dusty death matrix language turnover hypoth 13 copper island aleut case language resurrection nikolai vakhtin references index languages index names general index order info http www cup org order html language web power problem words jean aitchison university oxford language web power problem words 1996 bbc reith lectures isbn 0521 57385 8 hardback 5 1 4 x 8 152 pp pub date 4 13 97 publisher cambridge university press 49 95 language like vast interconnected spider web volume jean aitchison explores different facets web ranging biological nature way language acquired children way web aided language evolution text 1996 bbc reith lectures addition illustrations suggestions reading notes afterword looks reception lectures contents 1 web worries anxiety language 2 web deceit origin language 3 building web acquiring language 4 web words remembering words 5 worldwide web options snares order info http www cup org order html english global language david crystal english global language isbn 0521 59247 x hardback 5 1 2 x 8 1 2 160 pp publisher cambridge university press 19 95 david crystal world authority english language written timely informative account phenomenon english global language includes historical summary global facts figures current spread status english first second language internationally informed assessment future english book answers three basic questions makes world language english leading candidate continue hold position steers evenhandedly minefield political debate cultural hegemony english appeal anyone interest language issues whatever political views subject order info http www cup org order html