Nancy Currier Dorian (New Brunswick, 1936) foi uma linguista estadunidense conhecida por seus trabalhos sobre obsolescência e morte linguística, pesquisando especialmente o caso dos dialetos da língua gaélica escocesa.Drechsel, Emanuel J. (1990). "Review of Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death". Language in Society. 19 (4): 550–554. doi:10.1017/S0047404500014834. JSTOR 4168180. Foi professora emérita do Bryn Mawr College.
Bibliografia selecionada
Livros
1981. Language Death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1989. Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Organizadora.) 2010. Investigating Variation: The Effects of Social Organization and Social Setting. New York: Oxford University Press.
Artigos e capítulos
1973. "Grammatical change in a dying dialect", Language 49:413-38. 1977. "The problem of the semi-speaker in language death", International Journal of the Sociology of Language 12:23-32. (Language Death - número especial; Wolfgang Dressler & Ruth Wodak-Leodolter, eds.). 1982. "Defining the speech community to include its working margins", in Suzanne Romaine, ed., Sociolinguistic Variation in Speech Communities. London: Edward Arnold, pp. 25-33. 1994. "Purism vs. compromise in language revitalization and language revival", Language in Society 23:479-94. 1998. "Western language ideologies and small-language prospects", in Lenore A. Grenoble e Lindsay J. Whaley, eds., Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects, pp. 3-21. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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