A pioneering study of heritage languages, from a leading scholar in this area of study world-wide.

Languages and Their Speakers provides an introduction both to languages themselves and to their social functions. Written especially for nonlinguistics majors,

An authoritative overview of research into heritage language acquisition, covering key terminological and empirical issues, theoretical approaches, and research

It is generally agreed that about 7,000 languages are spoken across the world today and at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of this century. This s

Part travelogue and part scientist's notebook, The Last Speakers is the poignant chronicle of author K. David Harrison's expeditions around the world to meet wi