Asia: Language Endangerment And Resilience Linguistics: Case Studies Of Gong And Lisu

Asia: Language Endangerment And Resilience Linguistics: Case Studies Of Gong And Lisu David Bradley, 2010   Resilience thinking is a new approach to the understanding of complex ecological and social interactions and changes that is also relevant for our response to the processes of change that occur in language endangerment. Many communities around the world are in or approaching a tip phase of language endangerment, involving drastic changes in language ability, structure, and use, as...

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