What is it about?
How does linguistic diversity reflect diversity in thought? What is the impact of multilingualism on folklore and oral literature, as ideas pass between languages?
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Why is it important?
We live in a world with over 6 thousand languages, though many are endangered now. What do these languages tell us about the human condition? About diversity in thought? About diversity in the creative arts, including storytelling?
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Sean O'Neill is a linguistic anthropologist who specializes in the expression of oral literature in multilingual and multicultural settings throughout the Americas.
Dr Sean P O'Neill
University of Oklahoma
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This page is a summary of: The politics of language contact in northwestern California: Maintaining diversity in the face of cultural convergence, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2016-0015.
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