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A language revolution: from reluctance to renaissanceConflation of papers given to British Council conference in Cardiff, 30 September 2001 (on its Web site), and EYL World Language Day in Strasbourg, 26 September 2001 [part rewritten for Chapter 4 of The Language Revolution, 2004]09.30.2001
A London Language MuseumMuseum International, special issue on 'Languages, between heritage and development', 238, 2008, 80-8709.06.2008
A world of languages - and language housesIn Michael Dürr, Doris Müller-Toovey & Michael Vogt (eds), Die Welt der Sprachen: Neue Vermittlungsformate für die Auseinandersetzung mit sprachlicher Vielfalt (Berlin: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek, 2015), 106-1303.15.2015
Afterword on endangered languagesIn Kenneth L Rehg & Lyle Campbell (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 885-9408.07.2018
Alle 14 Tage stirbt eine SpracheSymposium über 'Explorations on Authentic Linguistics', University of Hamburg 22-4 February 2001, Im Wortlaut/Tagungen, 45-602.24.2001
As they say in ZanzibarLondon: HarperCollins, 2006, 717 pp. 0 00 721202 X; US edition (Oxford) 978 0 19 537450 601.01.2006
Back to the futureThe Linguist, January 2011, 10-1301.01.2011
Celebrating 100 issues of English Today and musing on museumsEnglish Today, 100, 2009, 24-712.01.2009
Come salvare le lingue a rischioMadrelingua (September 2013), 1-209.14.2013
Contribution to William Murtha (ed) 100 WordsEntry in William Murtha (ed), 100 Words, 200 Visionaries (Conari Press, 2010), 84-502.11.2010
Creating a world of languagesIn FIPLV (International Federation of Language Teacher Associations), World News 61, December 2004, 22-35. (Contribution to Linguapax conference on Diversity, Sustainability and Peace, Barcelona, 20-23 May 2004)12.06.2004
Crossing the great divide: language endangerment and public awarenessKeynote speech to the International Expert Meeting on Endangered Languages, UNESCO, Paris, 10 March 200303.10.2003
Death sentenceThe Guardian G2, 25 October 1999, 2-3; adaptation of Prospect article by The Guardian, further reprinted in Spotlight, March 2000, 14-19 [scanned separately]10.25.1999
Death sentenceSpotlight, March 2000, 14-19, adaptation of 'The death of language' in Prospect (1999) [scanned separately], also in The Guardian G2, 25 October 1999, 2-3 [also scanned separately]03.01.2000
Diversity? We ain't seen nothin' yetPaper to the Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes Conference: 'Diversity in Language Learning and Teaching', Göteborg, 16 June 200606.16.2006
Foreword and Introduction to Endangered Languages in the 21st CenturyIn Eda Derhemi & Christopher Moseley (eds), Endangered Languages in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2022)07.01.2022
Foreword to Patxi Baztarrika, Babel o Barbariein Babel o Barbarie: una politica lingüística legítima y eficaz para la convivencia  (Irun: Alberdania, 2010), English original followed by Spanish translation01.01.2010
Geiriau proffwydGolwg 10 (38), 1998, 18-1907.24.1998
Global English and social injustice: the need to listenResponse to a position paper by Anna Kristina Hultgren in a special issue on 'Global English and social justice' in Nordic Journal of English Studies, 19(3), 2020, 165–174.10.07.2020
Interview. Part 1, focusing on endangered languagesin New Routes 12, 2001, 6-803.14.2001
Introduction to N. Ostler, Empires of the Worldin Empires of the world: a language history of the world (London: The Folio Society, 2010), xix-xxiii. Folio Society edition of the book first published in 200506.01.2010
Is Welsh safe?[talk prepared for Rhodri Williams, 1999, unpublished]03.01.1999
Jezyk je dryshtvenya konstryktsija: interviewNin (Belgrade) 2750, 11 September 2003, 42-309.11.2003
Language deathCambridge: CUP, 2000, x+198 pp. 0 521 65321 5; Canto edition, 2002 (shown here); Canto Classics edition, 2014, 9781107431812; Spanish translation, 2001, La muerte de las lenguas (Madrid: Cambridge University Press), 218 pp. 84 8323 134 4; Galician translation, 2003, A morte das linguas (Vigo: Editorial Galaxia), 261 pp. 84 8288 622 3; Serbian translation, 2003, Smrt jezika (Belgrade: eke XX Vek), 262 pp. 86 7562 023 3; Lithuanian translation, 2005, Kalbos myrtis (Vilnius: Tyto alba), 204 pp. 9986 16 446 X; Arabic translation 2006 (University of Tabuk); Turkish translation, 2007, Dillerin Katli (Istanbul: Profil Yayincilik), 230 pp.01.01.2000
Language deathQuicksilver (Spring 2001), 74-6, adaptation of the radio talk for Lingua Franca (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1999) [scanned separately]03.01.2001
Language death - radio talk
Language death
Broadcast for the series 'Lingua Franca', ABC [Australia], November 1999, 14 mins, 
recorded before attending the Melbourne Writers Festival.
A talk related to the forthcoming publication of the book with that title (CUP 2000)
Reproduced on e-mesh ltd web site, November 2000, and adapted for Quicksilver (Spring 2001), 74-6 [see separatre file with that title].
 11.01.1999
Language diversity, endangerment, and public awarenesspaper given to the British Academy in 2010, published in British Academy Review, 18, 2011, 12-20 [a revisiting of papers given between 2003 and 2007]02.23.2010
Lost for wordsOn Business, 2, 2010, 21-201.23.2010
Plurilingualism, pluridialectism, pluriformityplenary paper for TESOL Spain annual conference, Bilbao, 10 March 2012; in M. Pilar Díez, Rebecca Place & Olga Fernández (eds), Plurilingualism: promoting co-operation between communities, people and nations (Bilbao: University of Deusto, 2012), 13-2403.10.2012
Review of Daniel Nettle & Suszanne Romaine, Vanishing VoicesTHES, 9 February 200102.09.2001
Review of Tore Janson, A Short History of Languages; Andrew Dalby, Language in Danger; John McWhorter, The Power of BabelTHES, 14 June 2002, 2506.14.2002
Revitalizing languagesLanguage Magazine, October 2002, 18-20 [Adaptation of ABC talk]10.06.2002
Revitalizing the Celtic languages Journal of Celtic Language Learning 11, 2006, 5-19. [Paper to the XI Annual Conference of the North American Association for Celtic Language Teachers, University of Wales, Bangor, 11 June 2005]06.11.2005
Shooting languagesCeltic Film and Television Festival. Summary written for The Western Mail, 200007.01.2000
Speaking to the World about Speaking to the WorldIn Michael Kelly (ed), Languages after Brexit: how the UK speaks to the world (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 241-5001.10.2018
The art of storytelling
The art of storytellingBroadcast 2 June 2016, BBC Radio 3, for the series 'The Essay', 15 mins. Available on BBC Sounds: 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b07cypjj

Recorded in front of an audience at the Hay Festival, one of five talks on this topic. Other contributors: artist and memoirist Edmund de Waal, broadcaster and musician Clemency Burton-Hill, Shakespeare scholar Professor Emma Smith and novelist Jon Gower.
With so many of the world's languages disappearing,how we can preserve for the future the many different stories of accent, dialect and language?
 06.02.2016
The death of a languageLanguages Today (Association for Language Learning: special issue on Languages and Identity), Autumn 2013, 14-1510.19.2013
The death of languageProspect, November 1999, 56-911.01.1999
The future of languageDVD of three lectures with subtitles and accompanying book of commentary (London: Routledge, 2009): The future of Englishes; Language death; Internet linguistics. 9780415484909.07.01.2009
The future starts hereAddress on the occasion of the formal launch of The House of Languages, Barcelona, 11 July 200607.11.2006
The language that took over the world[not my title], The Guardian, 22 February 1997, 21 [scanned separately]
. Reprinted in Spotlight (Germany), 7, 1997, 12-16 (+ cassette)02.22.1997
The language that took over the world[not my title], The Guardian, 22 February 1997, 21 [scanned separately]. Reprinted in Spotlight (Germany), 7, 1997, 12-16 (+ cassette)02.22.1997
This man is worth £100,000 a year[their title] High Life (British Airways), June 2000, 104-806.07.2000
Too few words for the futureThe Age, Extra (Melbourne) 14 August 1999, edited version of a talk to the Melbourne Writers' Festival, 'Writing about writing about language' [scanned separately]08.14.1999
Towards a philosophy of language diversityPaper given to conference on 'Dialogue of Cultures', Reykjavik, 14 April 2005, in honour of Vigdis Finbogadottir04.14.2005
Towards a philosophy of language managementKeynote paper at the conference 'Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education', Maastricht, 28 June 2006; in Robert Wilkinson & Ver Zegers (eds), Researching Content and Language in Higher Education (Maastricht Language Centre, 2007), 19-31.06.28.2006
Vanishing languagesCivilization (Library of Congress), February-March 1997, 40-45; reprinted in Annual Editions: Geography, 1998-9, 212-1602.01.1997
What do we do with an International Year of Languages?Paper given to the UNESCOCat forum, Barcelona, European Languages Day, 26 September 2007; reprinted in Bosnistika Plus 1 (2013), 121-3309.26.2007
What do we do with an International Year of Languages?Letter to Language with editor's reply, Language, 84 (2), 2008, 215-1709.06.2008
Writing about writing about languageTalk to the Melbourne Writers' Festival; edited version published in The Age, Extra (Melbourne) of 14 August 1999, with the title 'Too few words for the future' [scanned separately]08.14.1999
Yiddish rulesWritten in relation to the paperback edition (2007) of Dovid Katz, Words on Fire: the Unfinished Story of Yiddish (New York: Basic Books, 2004)
 05.16.2009
Zukunft vieler Sprachen sieht düster ausKlett ThemenDienst, Schule, Wissen, Bildung 6, April 2001, 7-1004.15.2001