TY - BOOK AU - Edwards, John TI - Multilingualism: understanding linguistic diversity SN - 9781350195417 AV - P 155 E2824 2023 PY - 2023/// CY - London PB - Bloomsburry Academic KW - Multilingualism N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Language origins and language diversity -- Interpreting language diversity -- The emergence and measurement of multilingualism -- Dialects and other language varieties -- multilingual abilities -- The consequences of Babel: Lingua francas and translation -- Keeping language pure -- Language and identities -- Language decline and revival: basic factors -- Language decline and revival: advocacy and activism -- Language planning and the ecology of language -- Postmodern perspectives ER -