Language spread
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:Used for:- Diffusion of language
- Language and languages -- Diffusion
- Language and languages -- Spread
- Language diffusion
- Spread of language
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Language Dispersal Beyond Farming (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2017), ed. by Martine Irma Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev (PDF and Epub with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)- Language Spread and Language Policy: Issues, Implications, and Case Studies (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1987; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1988), ed. by Peter H. Lowenberg (PDF at Georgetown)
- English Next: Why Global English May Mean the End of "English as a Foreign Language" (c2006), by David Graddol (PDF with commentary at britishcouncil.org)
- The Future of English? A Guide to Forecasting the Popularity of the English Language in the 21st Century (c2000), by David Graddol (PDF with commentary at britishcouncil.org)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Sociolinguistics- Language, Borders and Bordering Practices / Lenguaje, Fronteras y Prácticas de Fronterización (in English and Spanish; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2025), ed. by Yvette Bürki and Alba N. García Agüero (PDF and Epub with commentary at De Gruyter Brill)
- Can Language be Planned? Sociolinguistic Theory for Developing Nations (originally published 1971; this edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), ed. by Joan Rubin and Björn H. Jernudd
- The Civilization of Illiteracy (1997), by Mihai Nadin (Gutenberg text)
- Speech and Respect (Hamlyn Lectures, #44; London: Stevens and Sons/Sweet and Maxwell, 1994), by Richard L. Abel (PDF in the UK)
- The Standard Language Ideology of the Hebrew and Arabic Grammarians of the 'Abbasid Period (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2023), by Benjamin Kantor (PDF with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Fatwas and Court Judgments: A Genre Analysis of Arabic Legal Opinion (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Ahmed Fakhri (PDF at Ohio State)
- Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by LuMing Mao (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Dialect Use as Interaction Strategy: A Sociolinguistic Study of Contextualization, Speech Perception, and Language Attitudes in Austria (Vienna: Braumüller, c2009), by Barbara Soukup (PDF with commentary in Austria)
- The Afro-Bolivian Spanish Determiner Phrase: A Microparametric Account (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Sandro Sessarego (PDF at Ohio State)
- Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Renata R. Mautner Wasserman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- VARIATIONist Linguistics Meets CONTACT Linguistics (Göttingen: V&R Unipress and Vienna University Press, c2020), ed. by Alexandra N. Lenz and Mateusz Maselko (PDF files with commentary at V&R eLibrary)
- Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2002; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2004), ed. by Philip LeVine and Ronald Scollon (PDF at Georgetown)
- Linguistics, Language, and the Real World: Discourse and Beyond (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2001; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2003), ed. by Deborah Tannen and James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
- Language, Communication, and Social Meaning (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1992; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1992), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
- Linguistics and Language Pedagogy: The State of the Art (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1991; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1991), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
- Language Spread and Language Policy: Issues, Implications, and Case Studies (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1987; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1988), ed. by Peter H. Lowenberg (PDF at Georgetown)
- Meaning, Form, and Use in Context: Linguistic Applications (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1984; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1984), ed. by Deborah Schiffrin (PDF at Georgetown)
- Linguistics and Anthropology (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1977; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1977), ed. by Muriel Saville-Troike (PDF at Georgetown)
- Linguistics: Teaching and Interdisciplinary Relations (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1974; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1974), ed. by Francis P. Dinneen (PDF at Georgetown)
- Linguistics, Language, and the Professions: Education, Journalism, Law, Medicine, and Technology (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2000; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2002), ed. by James E. Alatis, Heidi Ehernberger Hamilton, and Ai-Hui Tan (PDF at Georgetown)
- Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation: Current Trends and Future Prospects (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1996; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1996), ed. by James E. Alatis, Carolyn A. Straehle, Maggie Ronkin, and Brent Gallenberger (PDF at Georgetown)
- Linguistics and the Education of Language Teachers: Ethnolinguistic, Psycholinguistic, and Sociolinguistic Aspects (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1995; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1995), ed. by James E. Alatis, Carolyn A. Straehle, Brent Gallenberger, and Maggie Ronkin (PDF at Georgetown)
- Linguistics, Language Teaching and Language Acquisition: The Interdependence of Theory, Practice and Research (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1990; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1990), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
- Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2008; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2010), ed. by Deborah Schiffrin, Anna De Fina, and Anastasia Nylund (PDF at Georgetown)
- Language in Public Life (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1979; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1979), ed. by James E. Alatis and G. Richard Tucker (PDF at Georgetown)
- Report of the Sixteenth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1965), by Charles W. Kreidler (PDF at Georgetown)
- Report of the Seventh Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1956), ed. by Paul L. Garvin (PDF at Georgetown)
- Report of the Fifth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1954), ed. by Hugo J. Mueller (PDF at Georgetown)
- Report Of The Thirteenth Annual Round Table Meeting On Linguistics And Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1963), ed. by Elisabeth Delorme Woodworth and Robert J. Di Pietro (PDF at Georgetown)
- Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2006; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2008), ed. by Kendall A. King, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Jia Jackie Lou, Lyn Wright, and Barbara Soukup (PDF at Georgetown)
- Teaching and Learning Tibetan; The Role of the Tibetan Language in Tibet's Future: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, April 7, 2003 (Washington: GPO, 2003), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
- Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2006; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2008), ed. by Kendall A. King, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Jia Jackie Lou, Lyn Wright, and Barbara Soukup (PDF at Georgetown)
- Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2006; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2008), ed. by Kendall A. King, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Jia Jackie Lou, Lyn Wright, and Barbara Soukup (PDF at Georgetown)
- Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution: Computational Linguistics and History (London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, c2017), by Tony McEnery and Helen Baker (PDF and Epub with commentary at OAPEN)
- Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), ed. by Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz (page images at HathiTrust)
- Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Erik Bond (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels (originally published 1971, revised 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alistair M. Duckworth (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Linda M. Shires (PDF at Ohio State)
- The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Audrey Jaffe (PDF at Ohio State)
- Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Essays in Popular Romance (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, c2004), ed. by Nicola McDonald (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger Now and Then: A Longitudinal Case Study of Schwarzenegger's English and German Pronunciation (Graz: Graz University Library Publishing, c2022), by Lisa Kornder (PDF with commentary in Austria)
- Un(intended) Language Planning in a Globalising World: Multiple Levels of Players at Work (Warsaw and Boston : De Gruyter, c2018), ed. by Phyllis Ghim Lian Chew, Catherine Chua, Kerry Taylor-Leech, and Colin H. Williams (PDF and Epub with commentary at De Gruyter Brill)
- Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), ed. by Roberta D'Alessandro, Michael T. Putnam, and Silvia Terenghi (HTML with commentary at OUP)
- Promissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, 2018), by Robin Truth Goodman (Javascript-dependent HTML with commentary at Lever Press)
- Changing the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era (c2000), ed. by Sherry Simon and Paul St-Pierre (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
- Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), ed. by Margaret H. Beissinger, Jane Tylus, and Susanne Lindgren Wofford (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
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