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Sustaining Language Use:
Perspectives on Community-Based Language Development
 
M. Paul Lewis and  Gary F. Simons
Spotlight Price:  $29.95
$39.95 retail

ISBN 978-1556712678, 267 pages
How does a language community sustain their language in the face of ever-increasing forces of language shift? This volume, both a textbook and a handbook, is the result of ten years of reflection by the authors in light of SIL International's 80 years of fieldwork in local language communities. Using the Sustainable Use Model detailed here, readers work towards ongoing maintenance of their language at a sustainable level.
I n this clearly written monograph, Lewis and Simons lay the groundwork for those who [work] with members of local language communities, to help them implement diverse activities that most effectively lead to a sustainable level of language use. They build appropriately upon the groundbreaking work that was carried out several decades ago by sociolinguists such as Charles Ferguson, Robert Cooper, and Joshua Fishman.
- Adapted from the Foreword by G. Richard Tucker
M. Paul Lewis
(Ph.D., sociolinguistics, Georgetown University) did fieldwork in Guatemala, was general editor of the Ethnologue®, and is a Sociolinguistics Consultant with SIL. His research interests are language endangerment, language policy and planning, and language documentation. He has consulted and trained on six continents. 
Gary F. Simons
(Ph.D., linguistics, Cornell University) is Chief Research Officer for SIL and Executive Editor of the Ethnologue®. He was involved in language development in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, co-founder of the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC), and co-developer of the ISO 639-3 identifiers for the world's languages.
SPECIAL ADD-ON OFFER*
Understanding Language Choices: 
A Guide to Sociolinguistic Assessment
 
Ken Decker and  John Grummitt
Spotlight Price:  $19.95 

*If ordered with  Sustaining Language Use

$29.00 retail  ISBN 978-1556713316, 265 pages
Understanding Language Choices  is an introductory textbook for anyone studying the motivations behind language use choices. It provides an introduction into the numerous factors, both internal and external, influencing such choices in a speech community: language attitudes, language learning, identity, the mobility of the community, and much more.  Written with the beginner in mind, this textbook includes numerous examples and case studies from around the world to illustrate the realities of sociolinguistic field research.
Ken Decker  (M.A., Linguistics, the University of Texas at Arlington). He brings to this book over 25 years' experience in field research in the sociology of language and language development. He has conducted sociolinguistic surveys in more than 35 languages in Asia and the Americas and served as consultant on surveys in Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Pacific.

John Grummitt, ( M.A., Applied Linguistics, the University of Leicester), draws on his decade's experience as an academic writing tutor and trainer of teachers in ESL programs in Japan and South Korea. His more recent survey work in Papua New Guinea has given him a perspective supplementary to Decker's on sociolinguistic fieldwork and language development.
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will be shipped by February 28.
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