How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
How to Kill a Language explores the forces that endanger languages and the power structures behind linguistic change. Sophia Smith Galer examines resistance, cultural identity, and the urgent effort to preserve the world’s words, offering a timely perspective on why language diversity matters.
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How to Kill a Language examines the forces that threaten languages and the consequences of linguistic loss.
Sophia Smith Galer considers the relationship between language and power, highlighting how words and communities are shaped by wider social pressures.
The book also explores resistance and the race to save endangered forms of expression.
Written for readers interested in language, culture, and society, it presents language preservation as an urgent and deeply human concern.
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