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Publication details [#44261]

Scanlon, Christopher and Michael Singh. 2006. Theorizing the decline of linguistic diversity. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 181 : 1–24.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language shift | language variation | social interaction

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper proposes a theory of declining linguistic diversity, attributed to the dominance of constitutively more abstract forms of social integration. When languages don't work across different levels of social integration, they are vulnerable to decline.