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Language Sciences

Volume 41, Part B, January 2014, Pages 222-226
Language Sciences

Things people speak?: a response to Orman’s ‘Linguistic diversity and language loss: a view from integrational linguistics’ with rejoinder

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Highlights

  • Response to Orman’s integrationist critique of orthodox theorising of linguistic diversity and language loss.

  • Asks how integrationist claims might be empiricised and translated into a practical research programme.

  • Discussion of the ontology of Norf’k and the pitfalls of metalinguistic terminology.

  • Integrationist investigation of language loss/death is possible if conceived as a lay-oriented enquiry.

Abstract

This article is presented in two parts. The first is a response to Orman’s integrationist critique of orthodox theorising of linguistic diversity and language loss. It asks how integrationist claims might be empiricised and translated into a practical research programme. A discussion of the ontology of Norf’k and the pitfalls of employing metalinguistic terminology is followed by the second part: an argument claiming an integrationist investigation of language loss/death is possible if conceived as a lay-oriented enquiry.

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Joshua Nash is the 2013 Bill Cowan Barr Smith Library Fellow at the University of Adelaide. He acknowledges the generous financial support of a Sir Mark Mitchell Research Foundation grant and a J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice small grant for 2013.

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