Adaptive Languages: An Information-Theoretic Account of Linguistic Diversity 9783110560107, 9783110557589

How Many Languages Do We Need?: The Economics of Linguistic Diversity [Course Book ed.] 9781400838905

In the global economy, linguistic diversity influences economic and political development as well as public policies in

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Sustaining Linguistic Diversity : Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties [1 ed.] 9781589014169, 9781589011922

In the last three decades the field of endangered and minority languages has evolved rapidly, moving from the initial di

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Diversity and Super-Diversity: Sociocultural Linguistic Perspectives 1626164223, 9781626164222

Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded, separate codes. But the increasing diversity

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Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity [1 ed.] 9789027265814, 9789027214195

This volume emphasizes the energetic nature of linguistic diversity and its consequences of how we think about language,

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On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy 9781503622357

This book presents a series of illuminating studies which conclusively demonstrates that the prevailing conception of hi

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Giving an Account of Oneself 9780823237685

What does it mean to lead a moral life? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provoc

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Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity 9781847691613

This book offers a solution to the familiar dilemma of decoding communication difficulties for learners developing the l

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Linguistic Diversity in Europe: Current Trends and Discourses 9783110270884, 9783110270839

This book, which emerges in the context of the European research network LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excel

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Linguistic diversity in space and time 9780226580562, 9780226580593, 9780226580579

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Linguistic Relativities : Language Diversity and Modern Thought 9780511988936, 9780521767828

There are more than six thousand human languages, each one unique. For the last five hundred years, people have argued a

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