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Publication details [#50249]
Trudgill, Peter. 1991. Language maintenance and language shift: preservation versus extinction. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 1 (1) : 61–69. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper argues that linguists ought to attempt to protect linguistic diversity, publicising for instance that bilingualism is normal, that all languages constitute adequate communication systems, and that barriers to communication are not necessarily a bad thing.