Towards an ecology of world languages
Auteur :
Calvet, Louis-Jean
Éditeur :
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN :
9780745629551
Date de publication :
24 avr. 2006
Dimensions :
23,6 x 16,0 x 2,9 cm
Poids :
562 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
There are around 5,000 languages spoken across the world today, but the languages that coexist in our multilingual world have varied functions and fulfil 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.