The ecolinguistics reader : language, ecology, and environment /
Thirty years ago a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen combined language with ecology. For Haugen, ''the ecology of language'' meant the study of the interrelations between languages in the human mind and in the multilingual community. Since then a special branc...
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| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2001.
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| Summary: | Thirty years ago a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen combined language with ecology. For Haugen, ''the ecology of language'' meant the study of the interrelations between languages in the human mind and in the multilingual community. Since then a special branch of linguistics, named Ecolinguistics, has developed in which the connection between language and ecology has been established in a variety of ways and using a multitude of methods and approaches. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 296 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-290) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847140838 1847140831 9780826420756 0826420753 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |