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Selma K. SonntagPublished On
2019-08-15Page Range
pp. 1-16Print Length
15 pages
Introduction
Language Politics and Language Contact
- Selma K. Sonntag (author)
Chapter of: The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya (pp. 1–16)
The introduction presents language politics and its interdisciplinarity and sets out how the current volume will contribute to the field. It explains the volume’s focus on the endurance of established language hierarchies in the Himalaya and introduces the coming chapters.