Handbook of the Changing World Language Map, 1st ed. 2020

This reference work delivers an interdisciplinary, applied spatial and geographical approach to the study of languages and linguistics. This work includes chapters and sections related to language origins, diffusion, conflicts, policies, education/instruction, representation, technology, regions, and mapping. Also addressed is the mapping of languages and linguistic diversity, on language in the context of politics, on the relevance of language to cultural identity, on language minorities and endangered languages, and also on language and the arts and non-human language and communication. This reference work looks at the subject matter and contributors to the disciplines and programs in the social sciences and humanities, and the dearth of materials on languages and linguistics. The topics covered are not only discipline-centered, but in the cutting-edge fields that intersect several disciplines and also cut across the social sciences and humanities. These include gender studies, sustainability and development, technology and social media impacts, law and human rights, climate change, public health and epidemiology, architecture, religion, visual representation and mapping. These new and emerging research directions and other intersecting fields are not traditionally discipline-bounded, but cut across numerous fields. The volumes will appeal to those within existing fields and disciplines and those working the intersections at local, regional and global scales.

Stanley D. Brunn Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. His childhood years were spent living in different states; before he graduated from high school, he lived in six Midwestern states, perhaps explaining why he is passionate about geography, landscapes, places, languages, faith communities, and human and environmental diversity. He has more than 5 years of university teaching and research experience in the United States and 20 other countries around the world. His US experiences have been at the University of Florida, Michigan State University, and the University of Kentucky, where he has been since 1980. He has taught in major universities in northern, southern, and eastern Europe (15 different) as well as in Central Asia, China, Australia, and South Africa. His research interests cover a broad array of topics within urban, economic, social, information/communications, geotechnology and cyberspace, time-space intersections, law, political, and environmental geography, geographical future, as well as disciplinary history. He has traveled in more than 100 countries and made over 200 presentations at conferences in the United States and internationally. He has authored, edited, or co-edited more than 20 books and published more than 100 articles in major national and regional journals and written nearly that many chapters, many with colleagues in other countries. Some have yet to see the light of day. The research scale of his studies includes local and regional arenas as well as global scales. In recent years he has become interested in the geographies of silences and abandonment, disciplinary intersections and interdisciplinary studies, global language and religion issues, cyberspace and regional development, and social, racial, and political injustices. His geographical interests continually expand to develop deeper appreciations of art, music, drama, and poetry. His eclectic interests are

First handbook with such scope to cover the topics presented in mapping linguistics

Delivers ongoing and developing coverage of the interdisciplinary topics of geography and linguistics

Contributes to a broad understanding of language in the spatial social sciences and humanities

Covers results from more than 50 different countries compiled by a truly global authorship

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras