The Language Revolution (16 page)

letter-writing
68

Libro de Catoia, Lo
114

lingua franca
9
,
36
,
123

linguistics
1
,
57
,
62
,
100
,
110
,
112
,
119
,
126

Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund
105

literacy
58

literature and language
130
–
1

Living On
116
–
17

Livy
33

loan words
26
,
42
–
7
,
99
–
101

logs, electronic
80

loi Toubon
43

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
113

‘Losing a Language'
115

Lost for Words
107

McArthur, Tom
29

MacLeish, Archibald
112

Malouf, David
114

Manx
51

Marconi, Guglielmo
15

‘Marsh Language'
114

Maypuré
113

media
4
,
13
–
18
,
35
–
6
,
107
,
119

mediums of communication
64
–
5
,
80
–
1
,
92
,
124

Merwin, W.C.
115

Mikami, Yoshi
87

Millennium Dome
127

minority languages
89
,
102
,
128

mobile phones
81

modes of communication
93
–
5

monolingualism
60
–
1
,
87
–
8
,
102
–
3
,
129

mother-tongue
see
first language

motion pictures
16
–
17

Mountain Language
116

Mulcaster, Richard
34

Multilingual Acquisition Device
93

multilingualism
38
,
60
–
1
,
87
–
91
,
93
–
6
,
102
,
129

multi-user domains
67

music and language
113

Name of the Rose, The
95

National Audubon Society
104

National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
127

natural disasters
52
–
4

Naughton, John
67

Navajo
118

Neapolitan
118

neologisms
84
–
5

Netspeak
65
–
91
,
124

New Englishes
see
Englishes, New

New York Associated Press
14

Nguni
26

non-native use of English
22
–
3
,
102

notes (in books)
78

novels on language death
114

Nowra, Louis
116

Occitan
114

official language
7
,
11
,
99

‘Only Speaker of his Tongue, The'
114

Oregon, University of
88

Orwell, George
101

Ovid
33

ownership of language
22
–
3
,
45
,
102

Oxford English Dictionary, The
43

peace and multilingualism
60
–
1

permanence of writing
76
–
7

persistence on screen
79
–
80

photography and language death
119

Picasso, Pablo
112

Pinter, Harold
116

plays on language death
116
–
17

plurilingualism
see
multilingualism

poetry on language death
114
–
16

politics and language
10
–
12

popular music
17
–
18

Portuguese
49
,
55

postal service
20

Pound, Ezra
59
,
112

Powaqqatsi
113

power and language
10
,
49

pragmatic translation
97
–
8

prescriptivism
100
,
109

Presley, Elvis
18

press, the
13
–
14

printing
82
–
3
,
88

priorities, linguistic
128
–
31

prizes
122

punctuation
74
,
79
,
82
–
3

purism
42
–
3
,
99
–
100

radio
15
–
16
,
107
–
8

Raleigh, Walter
34

Ramphal, Sridath
19

rebus
81

Reggio, Godfrey
113

relay language
99

religion and language
111

‘Reservoirs'
121

Reuter, Paul Julius
13

revitalization
57
–
63
,
125

revolution, character of
2
–
3
,
64
–
5
,
69
,
79
,
92
–
3
,
98
–
9

rhythm of interaction
71
–
2

Rogers, Samuel
113

Rolling Stones, The
18

Romansch
48

Russian
49
,
55

Russian Revolution
4

safety
18
–
19

Schama, Simon
110

school curricula
107
,
120
,
126

Scots
33

Seaspeak
18

second language
7
,
23
,
102

semilingualism
57
,
95
–
6

Serbo-Croatian
60

Shakespeare, William
3
,
35
,
43

Shinkuba, Bagrat
114

short stories on language death
114

sign language
65

Simpson, Homer
65

simultaneous feedback
69
–
70

Singlish
101

Sissano
52

Slovak
61

smileys
75
–
6

Smith, John
26

Spanish
22
,
39
,
42
,
45
–
6
,
49
,
55
,
87

speech

origins of
65

vs Netspeak
69
–
76

spelling
74
,
79
,
82

Standard English
37
–
9
,
92

standardization
36
–
7
,
129

static character of writing
77

Steiner, George
59

‘Stories from the Edge: the Art of Survival'
119

Story of English, The
108

Story of Welsh, The
108
,
110

stylistic effects
44
,
81

Summer Institute of Linguistics
50
,
52

survival ability in language
95

Swahili
42
,
55

synchronous interaction
67

Tagalog
29

Taglish
29

Tammurriata
118

technology and language
10
–
11
,
16
,
64
–
5
,
69
,
71
,
76
,
82
–
3

telephone conversation
71
–
2
,
83

television programmes
108

Tex-Mex
29

text-messaging
81

Third Page, The
113

Thomas, Ned
91

Thomas, R.S.
115
–
16
,
121

Tolkien, J.R.R.
88

tone of voice
74
–
6

translation
10
,
96
–
9

Translations
116

travel
18
–
19

tri-dialectalism
38
–
40
,
101

triglossia
39
–
40
,
102

triplets
44

turn-taking
73
–
4

Ubykh
114

UNESCO
48
,
63
,
104
–
5
,
125

UNICODE
91

Union of International Associations' Yearbook
11

United Nations
9
–
10
,
36

Vauget, Jean
113

Virgil
33

Virtual Museum of American

Linguistic Heritage
127

virtual worlds
67

vocabulary
25
–
7
,
83
–
5

Voice of America
15

Volkswagen Stiftung
105

Warren, Robert Penn
112

Warupu
52

Web
see
World Wide Web

Welsh
48
,
51
,
57
,
109
,
115

Wenders, Wim
16

Wenglish
29
–
30

Wilde, Oscar
111

Winfrey, Oprah
110

Winston, Lord
110

WithOutWords
112

Wood, Michael
110

Wordsworth, William
59

working language
99

World Conservation Union
104
,
106

world heritage sites
104

World Language Day
2
,
111
,
122

World Language Resources
88

World of Language
126
–
7

World Wide Web
64
,
66
–
8
,
76
–
8
,
87
–
91

World Wildlife Fund
104

writing

origins of
65

vs Netspeak
76
–
80

Yoruba
88