ABSTRACT
To see languages from a dynamic ecological perspective is to view them “not as isolated entities that are the subject of language policy-making, theorizing and practice, but as part of a larger ecology” (Murray & Scarino, 2014, p. 4) in which languages impact one another often in complex and sometimes critical ways that may have existential and other consequences, both positive and negative, for the languages concerned and for the cultures they embody. It is a perspective that has become more prominent as a consequence of globalisation and of what Vertovec (2010) has described as the ‘superdiversity’ accompanying it. That superdiversity has brought with it increased levels of language contact and a growth in multicultural, multilingual communities where cross-cultural interactions are quickly becoming the norm.
