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| Contentid | 687 |
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| Title | LANGUAGE IN DANGER |
| Body | From: The Washington Post LANGUAGE IN DANGER The Loss of Linguistic Diversity And the Threat to Our Future By Andrew Dalby Columbia Univ. 329 pp. $27.95 from the Washingtion Post: ...There are, concludes Dalby, "three overriding reasons why we need to stop losing languages." First, "we need the knowledge that they preserve and transmit." Second, "we need other languages for the insights they give us into the way things may be -- we need them for those alternative world views." Third, "we need a multiplicity of languages because it is interaction with other languages that keeps our own language flexible and creative." By the end of Language in Danger, most readers will likely agree with Dalby's analysis. |
| Source | Andrew Dalby |
| Inputdate | 2003-10-13 13:30:00 |
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