Getting Language Rights: The Rhetorics of Language Endangerment and Loss

American Anthropologist

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 723-732

  Errington, Joseph ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ideology; Language change; Linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347588267     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2003.105.4.723     Document Type: Review

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