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Kendal King, Language revitalization processes and prospects: Quichua in the Ecuadorian Andes. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2001. Pp. 253.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2002

Norbert Francis
Norbert Francis
Affiliation:
Education – Box 5774, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011, USA, norbert.francis@nau.edu
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Abstract

Studies of language erosion, especially erosion in the advanced stages, are hard to do, and they do not always make for light reading. In evaluating the findings, readers need to maintain a healthy distance between what the evidence actually shows and what they imagine it might show in a hypothetical other world. For bilingual educators, for example, understanding the course of language displacement is a part of our work that we have tended to neglect. Kendal King's investigation of the shift to Spanish in the Saraguro (Quichua-speaking) communities of southern Ecuador marks another advance in this important aspect of the study of bilingualism.

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Language in Society , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , October 2002 , pp. 650 - 653
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2002 Cambridge University Press

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