Table of Contents “...Languages and dialects -- Languages with special roles/functions: national and official languages -- Languages under pressure: minority groups and language loss -- Diglossia and code-switching -- Pidgins and creoles: the birth and development of new languages -- The globalization of English -- Language(s) in the USA -- Bilingualism -- Language and thought: the linguistic relativity controversy -- Language and gender -- Language variation and change....”
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