In this important new book Louis-Jean Calvet, one of the foremost sociolinguists working today, argues that what we call ‘languages’ are in fact abstractions invented by linguists as a convenient tool to label the subject-matter of their science. Langug, Calvet contends, are social practices that we need to listen to, describe, and understand in the contexts in which they are used. Languages exist only insofar as they used by the people who speak them, and linguistic situations can be understood onl
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