Diversity is More Than Grammatical Diversity: A Response to Terry Crowley's Review Article: Linguistic Diversity in the Pacific

A rejoinder to Terry Crowley's "Linguistic Diversity in the Pacific" (1999), suggests that the agenda of Muhlhausler's Linguistic Ecology: Language Change and Linguistic Imperialism in the Pacific Region (1996) was not to offer a politically correct interpretation of language los...

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Published in:Journal of sociolinguistics 1999-05, Vol.3 (2), p.255-288
Main Author: Muhlhausler, Peter
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Language Varieties
Linguistics
Methodological Problems
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Oceania
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