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Crowley, Terry – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1999
The recent writing of Muhlhausler argues that lexicography and other acts of linguistic description constitute a serious trespass on the linguistic ecology of an area, which can ultimately lead to a language's demise. This article critically examines views such as this in the context of community expectations of lexicographical researchers in the…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Language Research