Towards an Ecology of World Languages (Paperback)

Acknowledgements

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• INTRODUCTION: practices and representations
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• 1. The ecology of languages
  
• The need for identity and its linguistic
  
• manifestations: endogenous and exogenous
  
• relexifications
  
• The graphic environment
  
• Dramatic change in a specific linguistic ecology: the example of Australia
  
• The political frontier and the ecolinguistic system
  
• The influence of the horse on European languages 98
  
• A false conception of linguistic ecology: Bickerton's
  
• simulation project
  
• Conclusions
  
• 2. The galaxy of languages
  
• Constellations of languages
  
• The galactic model and linguistic policy:
  
• the example of the European Community
  
• The Hindi constellation
  
• The Bambara constellation
  
• The galaxy of writing systems
  
• Conclusions
  
• 3. Regulation and change: the homeostatic model
  
• An example of internal regulation: vernacular variants of French
  
• Of ships and languages: from Christopher Columbus to lingua franca
  
• Vernacularization as ecological acclimatization:varieties of French in Africa
  
• African argots and the ecolinguistic niche; the example of Bukavu
  
• Conclusions: acclimatization and acclimatation
  
• 4. Linguistic representations and change
  
• Linguistic insecurity and representations: a historical approach
  
• Some theoretical problems: a first approach
  
• Some problems of description
  
• Conclusions
  
• 5. Transmission and change
  
• The transmission of first languages and the myth of the mother tongue
  
• The case of creoles: upheaval in the ecolinguistic niche and linguistic change
  
• The transmission of gravitational systems
  
• Conclusion: evolution and revolution
  
• 6. Five case studies
  
• One name for several languages: Arabic schizoglossia Several names for one language: the example
  
• of Kituba
  
• One, two or three languages? The example of Serbo-Croat
  
• Kraemer: the invention of French in the socioprofessional context
  
• An ecological niche: the Island of St-Barthélemy
  
• CONCLUSION: Inventing language, giving it a name
  
• Notes
  
• Bibliography
  
• Index