TY - BOOK ID - 2940263 TI - Language in the twenty-first century : selected papers of the millennial conferences of the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems, held at the University of Hartford and Yale University AU - Tonkin, Humphrey AU - Reagan, Timothy AU - Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems AU - John Benjamins Publishing Company PY - 2003 VL - 1 SN - 9027228310 9027228329 1588113841 1588113833 9786612161155 1282161156 9027296421 9789027296429 9789027228314 9789027228321 9781588113832 9781588113849 9781282161153 6612161159 DB - UniCat KW - Language and languages KW - Congresses KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - LANGAGE ET LANGUES KW - LANGUE UNIVERSELLE KW - DISCOURS, ESSAIS, CONFERENCES KW - DISPARITION KW - Langues KW - Langue universelle KW - Discours, essais, conférences KW - Linguistics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2940263 AB - What is the future of languages in an increasingly globalized world? Are we moving toward the use of a single language for global communication, or are there ways of managing language diversity at the international level? Can we, or should we, maintain a balance between the global need to communicate and the maintenance of local and regional identities and cultures? What is the role of education, of language rights, of language equality in this volatile global linguistic mix? A group of leading scholars in sociolinguistics and language policy examines trends in language use across the world to find answers to these questions and to make predictions about likely outcomes. Highlighted in the discussion are, among other issues, the rapidly changing role of English, the equally rapid decline and death of small languages, the future of the major European languages, the international use of constructed languages like Esperanto, and, not least, the question of what role applied scholarship can and should play in mapping and influencing the future. ER -