', reviews the reasons for the current crisis, and investigates what is being done to reduce its impact.
Professor Crystal is author of the hugely successful Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (1987; Second Edition 1997), Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (1995), English as a Global Language (1997), Language Death (2000) and Language and the Internet (2001). An internationally renowned writer, journal editor, lecturer and broadcaster, he received an OBE in 1995 for his services to the study and teaching of language.
In this 2002 book, a leading commentator on language issues, David Crystal asks the question, 'Why is language death so important? Definately not one to pass by. By some counts, only 600 of the 6,000 or so languages in the world are 'safe' from the threat of extinction. * Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. David Crystal is one of the world's foremost authorities on language, and as editor of the Cambridge Encyclopedia database has used the Internet for research purposes from its earliest manifestations.
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