Book Launch: 1000 Languages

Date: 16 October 2008, 5:30-7:00 PM

Place: Room 116, College Buildings, SOAS, Russell Sq ... map 

1,000 Languages, edited by Peter K. Austin, Endangered Languages Academic Programme, SOAS and featuring SOAS authors Phil Jaggar, Friederike Lüpke, Lutz Marten and Nicholas Ostler has just been published by Thames and Hudson.

The book will be launched by Professor David Crystal (University of Wales, Bangor), writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster. He has published over 100 books including The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Linguistics, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Pronouncing Shakespeare, Language Death, Language and the Internet, English as a Global Language, and most recently Txtng: The Gr8 db8.

All welcome. RSVP Alison Kelly elap@soas.ac.uk or phone 020-7898-4578

To find out more about the book, see the 1000 Languages page.