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Keeping the promise of the Millennium Development Goals: Why language matters
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Suzanne Romaine
Suzanne Romaine has been Merton Professor of English Language at the University of Oxford since 1984. Her research interests lie primarily in problems of societal multilingualism, linguistic diversity, language change, language acquisition, language revitalization and language contact. She is co-author (with Daniel Nettle) ofVanishing Voices .The Extinction of the world's languages (Oxford University Press), which won the British Association for Applied Linguistics Book of the Year Prize in 2001.
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March 28, 2013
Published Online: 2013-03-28
Published in Print: 2013-03-29
©[2013] by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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Keywords for this article
multilingualism;
development;
Millennium Development Goals;
policy;
planning
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