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From: https://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=136974

 

Language policy issues are imbued with a powerful symbolism that is often linked to questions of identity, with the suppression or failure to recognise and support a given endangered variety representing a refusal to grant a 'voice' to the corresponding ethno-cultural community. This wide-ranging volume, which explores linguistic scenarios from across five continents, seeks to ignite the debate as to how and whether the interface between people, politics and language can affect the fortunes of endangered varieties

 

Read more about this book at: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/policy-and-planning-endangered-languages?format=PB