Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South provides an
original appraisal of the latest innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the …

Abstract Language diversity is under threat. While each language is subject to specific
social, demographic and political pressures, there may also be common threatening …

This discussion note reviews responses of the linguistics profession to the grave issues of
language endangerment identified a quarter of a century ago in the journal Language by …

In this extensive study of the changing role of Gaelic in modern Scotland-from the
introduction of state education in 1872 up to the present day-Wilson McLeod looks at the …

This article provides an up-to-date perspective on the endangerment that contact languages
around the world are facing, with a focus on pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages. While …

Generating accurate word-level transcripts of recorded speech for language documentation
is difficult and time-consuming, even for skilled speakers of the target language. Automatic …

Drawing extensively from Indigenous scholarship, I argue for more holistic and inclusive
notions of language and language vitality. This enables a better understanding of language …

Indigenous communities, linguists, teachers, and language activists have been developing
methods to revitalise endangered languages over several decades. Not only are these …

Abstract This paper approaches International Sign (IS) as both a translingual practice and a
contact language which is subject to language contact with American Sign Language (ASL) …

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art
of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established …