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Language use

Index of SIL publications on Language use listed by country.

See only SIL publications on Language use available online or for purchase from SIL International Publications.

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General works

• Anonymous. 1997. Summer Institute of Linguistics International Language Assessment Conference, Horsleys Green, England, 4-11 June 1997.
• BRUGMAN, Claudia, author. 1995. Review of: The language instinct: how the mind creates language, by Steven Pinker.
• BUTH, Randall J., author. 1992. "Language use in the first century: Spoken Hebrew in a trilingual society in the time of Jesus."
• DECKER, Kendall D., author. 2008. Review of: English in modern times, 1700-1945, by Joan C. Beal; English in the Middle Ages, by Tim William Machan; The development of standard English, 1300-1800: theories, descriptions, conflicts, Laura Wright, editor.  
• DUKE, Daniel J., author. 1996. Annotated bibliography on diglossia.
• DUKE, Daniel J., author. 1996. Diglossia: examples and implications.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1995. Review of: The Celtic languages, by Donald MacAulay, editor.
• HARRIS, A. Suzanne, author. 1998. Review of: The linguistic individual, by Barbara Johnstone.
• HOWLETT, Marsha, author. 1999. Review of: Talk is cheap: Sarcasm, alienation, and the evolution of language, by John Haiman.
• KARAN, Mark E., author. 2008. The importance of motivations in language revitalization.
• KINDELL, Gloria E., author. 1996. Diglossia: a brief introduction.
• LEWIS, M. Paul, author. 1999. Language (development) as particle, wave, and field.
• MAGNUSSON, Carol, author. 2010. Review of: Laughter in interaction, by Phillip Glenn.  
• O’HERIN, Brian, author. 2009. Review of: Empires of the world: a language history of the world, by Nicholas Ostler.  
• PARKS, Elizabeth, author. 2010. Review of: The social art: language and its uses, by Ronald Macaulay.  
• PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1999. Review of: Endangered languages: current issues and future prospects, Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley, editors.
• ROBINSON, Clinton D. W., author. 1997. "Language policy from the bottom up? Reclaiming language use in Africa."
• SCEBOLD, Robert A., author. 1993. Review of: Reversing language shift, by Joshua A. Fishman.
• SILZER, Peter J., author. 2000. "Language."
• THOMAS, J. Paul, author. 2009. Review of: Study abroad and second language use: constructing the self, by Valerie Pellegrino Aveni.  

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• TRUDELL, Barbara, author. 2006. "Language development and social uses of literacy: a study of literacy practices in Cameroonian minority language communities."
• TRUDELL, Barbara, author. 2007. "Local community perspectives and language of education in sub-Saharan African communities."

Cape Verde Islands

• GRAHAM, Steve, author. 2001. "A look at the acts of identity theory through a social network analysis of Portuguese-based creoles in West Africa."

Central African Republic

• KARAN, Mark E., author. 2001. The Dynamics of Sango Language Spread.  

Congo

• GARDNER, William L., author. 2006. "Language use in the Epena district of Northern Congo."  

Côte d’Ivoire

• HILL, Harriet S., author. 1996. Language use and attitudes in Abidjan.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• ARAALI, Bagamba Bukpa, author. 2007. A study of language shift in rural Africa: the Hema of the North-East of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ethiopia

• SIEBERT, Ralph, author. 1995. "A survey of the Dime language."

Ghana

• HANSFORD, Gillian F., author. 1994. "Using existing structures: three phases of mother tongue literacy among Chumburung speakers in Ghana."
• HANSFORD, Gillian F., author. 2004. Review of: Igo talk da broken English proper: a North American's guide to Ghanaian English, by Jon P. Kirby.

Kenya

• TRUDELL, Barbara, author. 2007. "Local community perspectives and language of education in sub-Saharan African communities."

Mali

• TRUDELL, Barbara, author. 2007. "Local community perspectives and language of education in sub-Saharan African communities."

São Tomé e Príncipe

• GRAHAM, Steve, author. 2001. "A look at the acts of identity theory through a social network analysis of Portuguese-based creoles in West Africa."

Tanzania

• STEGEN, Oliver, author. 2003. "If you've got a mother tongue, please use it!": Minority language development: the case of Rangi.  
• STEGEN, Oliver, author. 2005. Developing Bantu language descriptions in Swahili: strengthening both Tanzanian vernaculars AND Swahili in education.  

Americas

Brazil

• CAHILL, Michael, author. 2004. From endangered to less endangered: case histories from Brazil and Papua New Guinea.  
• DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C., author. 1981. Language universals, syntactic typology, and diachronic syntax: a select bibliography, with introductory survey.

Canada

• ISARA Choosri; MALONE, Dennis L., authors. 2007. "Stabilizing indigenous languages, a Symposium report."  

Guatemala

• EIDSVOOG, Sonya, author. 1998. Language maintenance in Cunenteco Quiché.
• LEWIS, M. Paul, author. 1994. Social change, identity shift and language shift of Kʼicheʼ in Guatemala.
• LEWIS, M. Paul, author. 1995. "Las fuerzas sociales y el proceso de oficialización."
• LEWIS, M. Paul, author. 1996. Language maintenance in seven Kʼicheʼ communities.  
• LEWIS, M. Paul, author. 1996. Measuring Kʼicheʼ (Mayan) language maintenance: a comprehensive methodology.  

United States

• ISARA Choosri; MALONE, Dennis L., authors. 2007. "Stabilizing indigenous languages, a Symposium report."  

Asia

Azerbaijan

• CLIFTON, John M., author. 2009. "The future of the shahdagh languages."

China

• BAI Bibo; CHAN, Ken; YANG Liujin, authors. 2006. Language use and language attitudes among rural Nisu.

India

• BOEHM, Kelly Kilgo, author. 1997. Language use and language maintenance among the Tharu of the Indo-Nepal tarai.
• STEGEN, Oliver, author. 2005. "Why teaching the mother tongue is important? (op. ed.)."  

Indonesia

• ANDERBECK, Kristen Leigh, author. 2010. Language use and attitudes among the Jambi Malays of Sumatra.  
• GRIMES, Barbara Dix, author. 1991. "Exploring the sociolinguistics of Ambonese Malay."
• GRIMES, Barbara Dix; JACOB, June, authors. 2006. "Developing a role for Kupang Malay: the contemporary politics of an eastern Indonesian creole."  
• GRIMES, Barbara F., author. 2002. "Kecenderungan bahasa untuk hidup atau mati secara global (global language viability): sebab, gejala, dan pemulihan untuk bahasa-bahasa yang terancam punah."
• GRIMES, Charles E., author. 1996. "Indonesian—the official language of a multilingual nation."
• GRIMES, Charles E., author. 1996. "Indonesian—the official language of a multilingual nation."

Malaysia

• ANDERBECK, Kristen Leigh, author. 2003. Language use and attitudes among the Jambi Malays of Sumatra.

Nepal

• BOEHM, Kelly Kilgo, author. 1997. Language use and language maintenance among the Tharu of the Indo-Nepal tarai.
• GURUNG, Deepa; MORGAN, Mary M., authors. 2002. "Languages worth writing: endangered languages of Nepal."
• SCHULZE, Marlene, author. 1995. Local words and directionals in Sunuwar.
• TOBA, Sueyoshi, author. 2000. "The Kusunda language revisited after 30 years."
• TOBA, Sueyoshi, compiler. 1992. Language issues in Nepal.

Pakistan

• DECKER, Kendall D., author. 1996. "Some observations on language vitality in Chitral."
• JEFFERY, David, author. 2003. Review of: Language, education and culture, by Tariq Rahman.  

Philippines

• VILLAREAL, Corazon D., author. 2006. "Language and desire in Hiligaynon."  

Taiwan

• HUTESON, Greg, author. 2005. "Report on language proficiency, language use, and language attitudes among the Puyuma."  

Tajikistan

• ABBESS, Elisabeth; MÜLLER, Katja; PAUL, Daniel; TIESSEN, Calvin; TIESSEN, Gabriela, authors. 2005. "The ethnolinguistic vitality of Yaghnobi."
• ABBESS, Elisabeth; MÜLLER, Katja; TIESSEN, Calvin; TIESSEN, Gabriela, authors. 2005. "Ishkashimi: a father's language: how a very small language survives."
• CLIFTON, John M., editor. 2005. Studies in languages of Tajikistan.

Thailand

• BISHOP, Nancy M., author. 1988. "Multilingualism among the Baansakai Maniq."
• ISARA Choosri; MALONE, Dennis L., authors. 2007. "Stabilizing indigenous languages, a Symposium report."  
• NATTHIDA Chakshuraksha, author. 2005. "The home domain and minority language maintenance: a sociolinguistic view of three Black Tai families in Thailand."  

Pacific

Australia

• ELLIS, S. James, author. 1988. Sociolinguistic survey report: Daly River Region languages.
• ELLIS, S. James, author. 1988. Sociolinguistic survey report: Wagait Region languages.
• GRABER, Philip L., author. 1988. Kriol in the Barkly tableland.
• KIRTON, Jean F., author. 1988. Yanyuwa, a dying language.
• LEE, Jennifer R., author. 1988. Tiwi: a language struggling to survive.

Papua New Guinea

• ADLER, Richard, author. 1975. "Olsem wanem Tok Pisin i ken helpim ol manmeri long Papua Niugini?."
• BICKERTON, Derek, author. 1975. "Can English and Pidgin be kept apart?."
• BRUCE, Leslie P., author. 1996. Report of the International Conference on New Guinea Languages and Linguistics.
• CAHILL, Michael, author. 2004. From endangered to less endangered: case histories from Brazil and Papua New Guinea.  
• FREYBERG, Paul G., author. 1975. "Bai yumi mekim wanem bilong helpim Tok Pisin?."
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., editor. 1975. Tok Pisin i go we?: Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, P.N.G., 18-21 September 1973.
• MEAD, Margaret, author. 1975. "On the crucial importance of Neo-Melanesian, also called Pidgin English."
• MIHALIC, F., author. 1975. "Standardisation in Pidgin."
• NOEL, John C., author. 1975. "Legitimacy of Pidgin in the development of Papua New Guinea toward nationhood."
• PINIAU, S., author. 1975. "Tok Pisin—Wanpela tok i nap long karimapim yumi olgeta."
• PINIAU, S., author. 1975. "Use of Pidgin for community development."
• SANKOFF, Gillian, author. 1975. "Wanpela lain manmeri ibin kisim Tok Pisin ikamap olosem tok ples bilong ol: Yumi ken bihainim gutpela Tok Pisin bilong ol."
• TAMOSAN, D., author. 1975. "Bikpela manmeri i kisim skul (Adult education)."
• WURM, Stephen A., author. 1975. "The question of language standardisation and Pidgin."

Solomon Islands

• BOERGER, Brenda H., author. 2007. "Natqgu literacy: capturing three domains for written language use."