Social gerontology’s growth as a distinctive discipline has remained contested with continuing debates on gerontology’s limited research focus, disciplinary boundaries and inadequate theoretical development subsequently ...

The People�s Linguistic Survey of India provides an overview of the extant and dying languages of India, as perceived by their speakers. It is the culmination of a nation-wide survey of languages, documented by linguists, ...

Early formulations grounded linguistic science in the study of �speech� (Bloomfield 1933; De Saussure 1959 [1916]; Sapir 1933). Important thinkers like Saussure claimed the study of linguistics would banish what he believed ...

A burgeoning literature has celebrated the complementary roles of bonding, bridging and linking potential of social capital. A disproportionately smaller set of studies have identified the less desirable consequences of ...