title: Ecology, language, and pragmatics
abstract: Much of the current discourse on the ecology of language has centered around the problem of how to ensure that languages thrive, are kept ‘alive’. One of the dangers of a purely object-oriented ecology is that is can be misused and turned against the very users it is meant to promote and protect. A proper view on linguistic ecology takes the language users into the equation: no language can survive without survivors. However, many linguists have often been mere interested recording and documenti
journal: University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark)