This book revisits and updates the concept of linguistic ecology, outlining applications to a variety of contact situations worldwide.

It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This s

Thirty years ago a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen combined language with ecology. For Haugen, 'the ecology of language' meant the study o

The increasingly rapid destruction of the ecological systems that support life is calling into question some of the fundamental stories that we live by: stories