The monograph is an outcome of a project titled Past, Present, and Future Prospects of Indigenous Language Documentation and Maintenance. The main aim of the project is to map the evolution of the global debate on the endangerment and revival of the worlds languages and cultures, with the research focus dedicated to the situation in (former) British territories, where the status of English is an important factor contributing to the modification of language and cultural diversity. The book is a collection of eight papers and treatises studying diverse sociolinguistic aspects related to...

The book is a collection of selected papers originally printed in various journals and conference proceedings, both national and international, appended with previously unpublished texts. The articles included to the book deal with a variety of topics related to the dynamics of languages that meet and interact. You can find here contributions to the evolution of both Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages, treatises discussing the globalizing effects of English as a modern lingua franca, and studies that focus on the status of minority language communities. Their author stresses the...