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In this topical study of the large scale loss of human language, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region. He focuses on cultural and historical forces to explain such loss.

In "Linguistic Ecology, " Peter Muhlhausler examines the transformation of the Pacific language region under the impact of colonialization, Westernization and modernization. By focusing on the linguistic and sociohistorical changes of the past 200 years, he brings a new dimension to the study of Pacific linguistics, which up until now has been dominated by questions of historical reconstruction and language typology. Muhlhausler focuses on the...

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This book tells the story of the language of the Bounty mutineers and their Polynesian consorts that developed on remote Pitcairn Island in the late 18th century. It is an in-depth study of the complex linguistic and sociohistorical forces that have been involved in the formation and subsequent development of this unique endangered language on both Pitcairn and Norfolk islands. Norfolk islands.

This book traces the history of the Bounty mutineers from their initial South Sea "paradise" through the rapid descent into a murderous hell on Pitcairn Island, followed by a deeply religious period, and then relocation to the "nearparadise" of Norfolk Island.

In this interdisciplinary examination of the discourse of environmentalism, the authors explore the linguistic, philosophical, psychological and cultural-historical aspects of environmental discourse, rather than environmental phenomena themselves. This volume is not advocacy on environmentalism, rather, it is an analysis of the means of persuasion and the techniques of advocacy used by both sides of the environmental debate between `conservat...