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<div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt">Dear all,<br>
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Once again in the interests of self-promotion (heck, if I didn't get a Discovery or DECRA I gotta get some kudos, right?) there are two recently published discussion papers in
<i>Language Sciences</i> relevant to the metalinguistics of language loss and language documentation.<br>
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The first paper 'Linguistic diversity and language loss: a view from integrational linguistics' by Jon Orman levels an integrationist critique of what (a) language is, and whether languages exist at all, and thus whether they can be 'saved':<br>
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0388000113000636<br>
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The second paper is Nash's response to Orman's initial paper plus Orman's rejoinder 'Things people speak?: a response to Orman’s ‘Linguistic diversity and language loss: a view from integrational linguistics’ with rejoinder:<br>
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0388000113001083<br>
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I am happy to provide pdf copies of both papers to anyone off list.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Josh<br>
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