Language endangerment has been the focus of much attention, and a wide range of people are working to revitalize and maintain local languages. This book serves as a general reference guide to language revitalization, aimed at all those interested in the fate of small language communities.

First published in 1985, A School Divided is about bilingual education in a Chinese-American community. Americans had recognized the need to provide bilingual education for non-English-speaking minorities. This study tests a hypothesis but also documents ethnographically what really takes place in a bilingual program.

In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic and important ideas concerning language, human nature and politics. In dialogue with James McGilvray, he takes up a wide variety of topics – the nature of language, the philosophies of language and mind and the evolution of language.

This book introduces almost 300 plant names to showcase the enormous variety of Scotland’s native species. It includes English, Gaelic and Scots (Including dialect) names, revealing the country’s diverse linguistic history. Short descriptions, together with historical and cultural information in each entry, make this book an ideal companion.

This book argues that our success in navigating the social world depends heavily on scripts. Scripts play a central role in our ability to understand social interactions shaped by different contextual factors.