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Publication details [#34790]

Levitt, Jesse, Leonard R.M. Ashley and Kenneth H. Rogers, eds. 1985. Geolinguistic perspectives: Proceedings of the international conference celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the American society of geolinguistics, 1985. University Press of America. xx + 377 pp.

Publication type

Book – edited volume

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | language spread | language use | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Chinese | Czech | English | French

Annotation

The structure of this collection of papers reveals the diversity of the subject: geolinguistics. The eleven divisions are labelled: the presidential address; the banquet address; general linguistics; international languages; technical language; onomastics; education; English; French; Czech; and Chinese.

Reviewed by

Lihani, John. 1989. Review of $Geolinguistic perspectives: Proceedings of the international conference celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the American society of geolinguistics, 1985.