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Linguistic Genocide or Superdiversity?: New and Old Language Diversities

by Reetta Toivanen
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781783096053
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
  • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 376
  • Original Price: GBP 114.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 749 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / Historical & Comparative and Linguistics / Sociolinguistics

Are we facing an immense wave of language death or a period of remarkable new linguistic variation? Or both? This book answers this question by analysing studies of language endangerment and loss along with those of language change, revitalization and diversity. Using case studies from Russia and the EU, the authors compare historical language variation to that of the present day, arguing that accelerated language extinction can be considered a result of colonization, modernization and globalization, but so too can many new creoles, intertwined and mixed languages, new ethnic identities, new groups of urban dwellers or migrant groups, all with their own distinct cultural traits. The book therefore surmises that the linguistic heritage of today is simultaneously more endangered and more diverse than ever before.

Saarikivi, Janne: -

Janne Saarikivi is a Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and Finno-Ugrian languages.

Toivanen, Reetta: -

Reetta Toivanen is an Adjunct Professor for social and cultural anthropology and a Finnish Academy Research Fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her main research interests are ethnic and language minorities, indigenous peoples, minority rights, revitalization and politics of recognition.

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