Resilience in Language Endangerment
Abstract
Resilience thinking is a new approach to the understanding of complex ecological and social interactions and changes, so far been applied mainly to the study of ecosystems (Walker and Salt 2006) and community environmental knowledge (Berkes 2008). Resilience is defined as "the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and still retain its basic function and structure" (Walker and Salt 2006: xiii).
