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Title |
Title of document |
43. What are Lingua Francas? - The Five-Minute Linguist |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Nicholas Ostler; Foundation for Endangered Languages; United Kingdom |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Linguistics |
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Keyword(s) |
introduction to language; introduction to linguistics; Linguistic Society of America; essays about language; what is language; what is linguistics |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
general linguistics |
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Description |
Abstract |
When different communities are in contact, they often resort to a lingua franca, a kind of ‘bridge’ language that is distinct from the mother tongues of each group. People learn lingua francas deliberately, in order to achieve some purpose; this means that a lingua franca's fate in the long term is vulnerable to changes in the balance of wealth and power. Along with the current example of English, past examples of Classic Chinese, Persian, Latin, French, and Spanish are discussed. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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09-Jul-2019 |
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Type |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/38163 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.38163 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; The Five-Minute Linguist |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |