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Towards an ecology of world languages

"There are around 5,000 languages spoken across the world today, but the languages that coexist in our multilingual world have varied functions and fulfill various roles. Some are spoken by small groups, a village or a tribe; others, much less numerous, are spoken by hundreds of millions of speakers ... In this major book Louis-Jean Calvet, one of the foremost sociolinguists working today, develops an ecological approach to language in order to analyze the changing structure of the world language system. The ecological approach to language begins from actual linguistic practices and studies the relations between these practices and their social, political and economic environment. The practices which constitute languages, on the one hand, and their environment, on the other, form a linguistic ecosystem in which languages coexist, multiply and influence one another. Using a rich panoply of examples from across the world, Calvet elaborates the ecological approach and shows how it can shed light on the changing forms of language use in the world today."--Book cover.

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  • ""There are around 5,000 languages spoken across the world today, but the languages that coexist in our multilingual world have varied functions and fulfill various roles. Some are spoken by small groups, a village or a tribe; others, much less numerous, are spoken by hundreds of millions of speakers ... In this major book Louis-Jean Calvet, one of the foremost sociolinguists working today, develops an ecological approach to language in order to analyze the changing structure of the world language system. The ecological approach to language begins from actual linguistic practices and studies the relations between these practices and their social, political and economic environment. The practices which constitute languages, on the one hand, and their environment, on the other, form a linguistic ecosystem in which languages coexist, multiply and influence one another. Using a rich panoply of examples from across the world, Calvet elaborates the ecological approach and shows how it can shed light on the changing forms of language use in the world today."--Book cover."
  • ""There are around 5,000 languages spoken across the world today, but the languages that coexist in our multilingual world have varied functions and fulfill various roles. Some are spoken by small groups, a village or a tribe; others, much less numerous, are spoken by hundreds of millions of speakers ... In this major book Louis-Jean Calvet, one of the foremost sociolinguists working today, develops an ecological approach to language in order to analyze the changing structure of the world language system. The ecological approach to language begins from actual linguistic practices and studies the relations between these practices and their social, political and economic environment. The practices which constitute languages, on the one hand, and their environment, on the other, form a linguistic ecosystem in which languages coexist, multiply and influence one another. Using a rich panoply of examples from across the world, Calvet elaborates the ecological approach and shows how it can shed light on the changing forms of language use in the world today."--Book cover."@en
  • "Les hommes pour communiquer adaptent leur pratique linguistique au milieu dans lequel ils se trouvent. Multipliant les exemples surprenants ou pittoresques, Louis-Jean Calvet montre que parler n'est pas si simple et que les langues, loin d'exister en soi comme le croient les linguistes ou les grammairiens, répondent à des demandes et à des situations en constante évolution."

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  • "Towards an ecology of world languages"@en
  • "Towards an ecology of world languages"
  • "Pour une écologie des langues du monde"

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