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How to Kill a Language

How to Kill a Language

Power, Resistance and the Race to Save Our Words

by Sophia Smith Galer
Hardback
Publication Date: 07/05/2026
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ISBN:
9780008723729
9780008723729
Category:
Language: history & general works
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
07-05-2026
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
240x159x21mm
Weight:
0.27kg
Sophia Smith Galer

Sophia is a reporter, writer and documentary maker with the BBC World Service, specialising in religion and digital culture. She is the first BBC journalist to be on TikTok and has accrued over 200,000 followers across social media.

She was named as a 'Voice of Change' in the TikTok 100 best of 2020 and sits as an inaugural member of the TikTok Creator Council. She was also selected as a One to Watch by the Edinburgh Television Festival in 2020 and has a Webby in Social Media for Arts and Culture. This will be her first book.

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Social discrimination & inequality Climate change Geopolitics Language: history & general works Bilingualism & multilingualism Language acquisition Nationalism Historical & comparative linguistics Globalization Sociolinguistics Reportage & collected journalism linguistics
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