Ecology, language, and pragmatics
Journal: University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark)
Year: 2018

Much of the current discourse on the ecology of language has centered around the problem of how to ensure that languages thrive, are kept ‘alive’. One of the dangers of a purely object-oriented ecology is that is can be misused and turned against the very users it is meant to promote and protect. A proper view on linguistic ecology takes the language users into the equation: no language can survive without survivors. However, many linguists have often been mere interested recording and documenti