Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the course students should be able to
-locate up-to-date descriptions, information and documents concerning linguistic situations globally, and evaluate such documentation
-explore the literature on a range of topics involving minority and endangered languages
-compare diverse linguistic situations
-explore the complexity of multi-lingual situations
-evaluate different approaches to determining the vitality or the level of endangerment of a language
Indicative Module Content:
World languages: major languages, minority languages, endangered languages
Assessing language vitality
Linguistic rights, Language policies, language attitudes
Language shift, reversing Language shift, language loss
Patterns of language diversity, the biodiversity metaphor