Studies in the Anthropology of Language in Mainland Southeast Asia
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press (2020)
N. J. Enfield, Jack Sidnell, and Charles H. P. Zuckerman (eds)
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About this volume
The papers in this special issue were first written for a workshop held at the University of Sydney in August 2019, titled The Anthropology of Language in Mainland Southeast Asia. Of special interest in the workshop was the fact that only a tiny fraction of the area’s languages have national language status. These national languages are far better researched and understood than the vast majority of languages spoken in the area. New research on minority languages (mostly in descriptive and historical linguistics) is beginning to redress this imbalance, but much work remains if we are going to achieve a full picture of human language in mainland Southeast Asia.