Abstract Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) is recognized as a fundamental
hydrological process that supports many coastal biogeochemical cycles and social …

Much attention has been focused on the survival of Indigenous languages in recent years.
Many, particularly anthropologists and linguists, anticipate the demise of the majority of …

Linguistic Fieldwork offers practical guidance on areas such as applying for funding, the first
session on a new language, writing up the data and returning materials to communities. This …

Language endangerment has been the focus of much attention and as a result, a wide
range of people are working to revitalize and maintain local languages. This book serves as …

It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken
now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as …

The principles for enabling children to become fully proficient multilinguals through
schooling are well known. Even so, most indigenous/tribal, minority and marginalised …

The concepts we use are almost never neutral. In contested arenas such as bilingual
education, words and concepts frame and construct the phenomena under discussion …

Most of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will vanish before the end of this
century, taking with them cultural traditions from all over the world, as well as linguistic …

The prospect of the loss of linguistic diversity on a large scale has prompted scholars such
as Fishman and others to propose programs of intervention to ‚reverse language shift'(RLS) …

Languages are today being murdered faster than ever before in human history: 90% of the
world's oral languages may be dead or moribund (no longer learned by children) in a …