Discourses of endangerment: Contexts and consequences of essentializing discourses

Discourses of Endangerment: Ideology and Interest in the Defence of Languages

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 57-75

  Jaffe, Alexandra ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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