Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages

By Daniel Nettle, S. Romaine. 2000

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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LINGUISTIC, CULTURAL, AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY (2005, background): “The recent proliferation of news stories as well as of popular books on the loss of linguistic diversity (e.g., Crystal 2000, Dalby 2003, Nettle & Romaine 2000)— which generally point to a link between language loss and culture and knowledge loss, and in some cases also biodiversity loss—may help…”
Saving Languages: An Introduction to Language Revitalization (2005, background): “…of cultural diversity, which is fostered by language diversity, in stimulating innovative thinking, and encoding alternative ways of seeing the universe (Nettle and Romaine 2000); still others note the centrality of language in protecting and expanding minority rights (Skutnabb-Kangas 2000).”
Evaluating the status of species using Indigenous knowledge: Novel evidence for major native mammal declines in northern Australia (2013, background): “However, largely as a consequence of historical events and past government policies (for example, the aggregation of Aboriginal people from their lands to centralised settlements), there has been a significant diminution in traditional Aboriginal practices and an associated erosion of traditional ec”
Language vitality: The weak theoretical underpinnings of what can be an exciting research area (2017, background): “I develop arguments against language advocates such as Crystal (2000, 2004), Nettle and Romaine (2000), Skutnabb-Kangas (2000), and Thomason (2015), who have generally been content with vague explanations of the causes of language loss, such as colonization, globalization, and even McDonaldization.”