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Konvergence a divergence čestiny a slovenštiny v Československém státĕ.
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ISBN: 8322925980 9788322925980 Year: 2005 Volume: 2727 132 Publisher: Wrocław Wydawnictwo uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego


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Combat pour le français : au nom de la diversité des langues et des cultures.
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ISBN: 2738116922 9782738116925 Year: 2006 Publisher: Paris Jacob


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Taaltrots : purisme in een veertigtal talen
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ISBN: 9025496245 9789025496241 Year: 1999 Publisher: Amsterdam/Antwerpen : Contact,


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Taalzorg, overheid en burger I, II : algemene conferentie van de nederlandse taal en letteren 1989
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ISBN: 9071313247 9071313263 9789071313240 9789071313264 Year: 1989 Volume: 27 Publisher: 's-Gravenhage Stichting Bibliographia Neerlandica

Discourses of endangerment
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ISBN: 9781847063229 0826487459 1847063225 9781441111173 1441111174 1283271494 9781283271493 9780826487452 9786613271495 Year: 2008 Publisher: London Continuum

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Abstract

Current academic discussions and public debates about language frequently focus on the importance of defending languages against various kinds of dangers. Many of these current debates attach great importance to linguistic diversity. The debates focus on defending institutionalized languages against multilingualism, or conversely defending minority languages against the incursion of larger ones, especially the spread of English. In both cases, languages are constructed as autonomous wholes, held to need defending against attack. This book challenges such a view of language, to argue that the d

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