, the relevance of economic development to the spread of modern communication technology, and the role of language in …

multilingualism. Contrary to the received doctrine in the scholarship on language endangerment and loss, we have argued that …

. However, we no longer need to rely on what people tell us. New data from the internet -- the traces of information that …

communities of practice, speaker and interaction types, native and non-native language use, and Lingua Franca communication. The …, promotional business writing, academic advising, disease counselling to internet posting, translation, and university classroom …