Language Death
Subtitle: Factual and Theoretical Explorations With Special Reference to East Africa (Contributions to the Sociology of Language)
Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
Published: January 1993
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9783110134049
Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language; Code switching (Linguistics); Congresses; Africa, East; Language obsolescence
First sentence: The most macabre of the numerous anthropomorphic metaphors linguists provide for their subject matter is that of language death.