Contemporary transformations of local linguistic communities

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 27, Issue , 1998, Pages 401-426

  Silverstein, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Language communities; Language norms; Language shift; Linguistic ideology; Minority languages

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000488681     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.27.1.401     Document Type: Article

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