All Outputs (13)

Sylheti Repertoires and Sociolinguistic Place-making in Tower Hamlets (2025)
Thesis
Winstanley, B. Sylheti Repertoires and Sociolinguistic Place-making in Tower Hamlets. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Conducted in collaboration with the Tower Hamlets based community organisation Osmani Trust, this sociolinguistic ethnography responds to local concerns that Sylheti is undergoing language shift to English. Existing studies have tended to focus on Sy... Read More about Sylheti Repertoires and Sociolinguistic Place-making in Tower Hamlets.

Use of English on Japanese commercial signage (2023)
Thesis
Kawabata, T. Use of English on Japanese commercial signage. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study investigates the use of English on commercial signs in Japanese Linguistic Landscapes (LL) and examines people’s perceptions toward the usage to find out whether written English in Japan has widely used and has specific features to be clas... Read More about Use of English on Japanese commercial signage.

Revitalizing Endangered Languages: A Practical Guide (2021)
Book
Olko, J., & Sallabank, J. (Eds.). (2021). Revitalizing Endangered Languages: A Practical Guide. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108641142

Of the approximately 7,000 languages in the world, at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of the twenty-first century. Languages are endangered by a number of factors, including globalization, education policies, and the political, economic... Read More about Revitalizing Endangered Languages: A Practical Guide.

A sociolinguistic study of language practices and language attitudes of Lebanese families in London (2019)
Thesis
Eid, Z. A. A sociolinguistic study of language practices and language attitudes of Lebanese families in London. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study explores the intergenerational patterns of language use and family language policies (FLPs), language attitudes towards Arabic and multilingualism, and identity practices of Lebanese families in London. It also investigates whether heritag... Read More about A sociolinguistic study of language practices and language attitudes of Lebanese families in London.

Discourse, ideology and function: dominant themes in the discursive construction of present day Cornish (2018)
Thesis
Croome, S. Discourse, ideology and function: dominant themes in the discursive construction of present day Cornish. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Beyond language: an ethnographic study of language planning and policy in the Yangon deaf community (2018)
Thesis
Foote, E. Beyond language: an ethnographic study of language planning and policy in the Yangon deaf community. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Learning "my" language : moments of languages and identities among Kurds in the UK (2016)
Thesis
Yilmaz, B. Learning "my" language : moments of languages and identities among Kurds in the UK. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Going, going, gone? The ideology and politics of language revitalisation in eastern Australia (2014)
Book Chapter
Austin, P. (2014). Going, going, gone? The ideology and politics of language revitalisation in eastern Australia. In P. Austin, & J. Sallabank (Eds.), Endangered Languages: Beliefs and Ideologies in Language Documentation and Revitalisation (109-124). British Academy. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197265765.003.0006

Endangered Languages: Beliefs and Ideologies in Language Documentation and Revitalization (2014)
Book
Austin, P., & Sallabank, J. (Eds.). (2014). Endangered Languages: Beliefs and Ideologies in Language Documentation and Revitalization. Oxford University Press: British Academy. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197265765.001.0001

Over the few past centuries, and the last 65 years in particular, there has been a tremendous reduction in global linguistic diversity, as people abandon minority language varieties and switch to larger and what they perceive to be more economically,... Read More about Endangered Languages: Beliefs and Ideologies in Language Documentation and Revitalization.

Language attitudes and identity in the Tibetan Dharamsala diaspora (2014)
Thesis
Izzard, J. R. Language attitudes and identity in the Tibetan Dharamsala diaspora. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Endangered Languages. Special issue of Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Vol 34. No. 4 (2013)
Other
(2013). Endangered Languages. Special issue of Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Vol 34. No. 4. London

Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages (2011)
Book
Austin, P., & Sallabank, J. (Eds.). (2011). Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511975981

It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This state-of-the-art Handbook examines the reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic dive... Read More about Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages.

Orthography development (2011)
Book Chapter
Lüpke, F. (2011). Orthography development. In P. Austin, & J. Sallabank (Eds.), Handbook of endangered languages (312-336). Cambridge University Press