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The Rise and Fall of Languages
Author | : Robert M. W. Dixon |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1997-12-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521626544 |
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A different approach to the theories on language evolution and change.
The Last Lingua Franca
Author | : Nicholas Ostler |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781846142161 |
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The author of "Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin" presents an erudite and provocative examination of the rise and coming fall of English as the world's language. Illustrations. Maps.
Speak A Short History of Languages
Author | : Tore Janson |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2002-03-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780191622908 |
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This book is a history of human speech from prehistory to the present. It charts the rise of some languages and the fall of others, explaining why some survive and others die. It shows how languages change their sounds and meanings, and how the history of languages is closely linked to the history of peoples. Writing in a lively, readable style, distinguished Swedish scholar Tore Janson makes no assumptions about previous knowledge. He takes the reader on a voyage of exploration through the changing patterns of the world's languages, from ancient China to ancient Egypt, imperial Rome to imperial Britain, Sappho's Lesbos to contemporary Africa. He discovers the links between the histories of societies and their languages; he shows how language evolved from primitive calls; he considers the question of whether one language can be more advanced than another. The author describes the history of writing and looks at the impact of changing technology. He ends by assessing the prospects for English world domination and predicting the languages of the distant future. Five historical maps illustrate this fascinating history of our defining characteristic and most valuable asset.
Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching
Author | : Jack C. Richards,Jack Croft Richards,Gavin Dudeney,Theodore S. Rodgers |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2001-04-09 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521803656 |
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In addition to the approaches and methods covered in the first edition, this edition includes new chapters, such as whole language, multiple intelligences, neurolinguistic programming, competency-based language teaching, co-operative language learning, content-based instruction, task-based language teaching, and The Post-Methods Era.
The Rise and Fall of the Ethnic Revival
Author | : Joshua A. Fishman,Michael H. Gertner,Esther G. Lowy,William G. Milán |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2013-02-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110863888 |
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Are Some Languages Better Than Others
Author | : Robert M. W. Dixon |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780198766810 |
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This book sets out to answer a question that many linguists have been hesitant to ask: are some languages better than others? Can we say, for instance, that because German has three genders and French only two, German is a better language in this respect? Jarawara, spoken in the Amazonian jungle, has two ways of showing possession: one for a part (e.g. 'Father's foot') and the other for something which is owned and can be given away or sold (e.g. 'Father's knife'); is it thus a better language, in this respect, than English, which marks all possession in the same way? R. M. W. Dixon begins by outlining what he feels are the essential components of any language, such as the ability to pose questions, command actions, and provide statements. He then discusses desirable features including gender agreement, tenses, and articles, before concluding with his view of what the ideal language would look like - and an explanation of why it does not and probably never will exist. Written in the author's usual accessible and engaging style, and full of personal anecdotes and unusual linguistic phenomena, the book will be of interest to all general language enthusiasts as well as to a linguistics student audience, and particularly to anyone with an interest in linguistic typology.
The Languages and Linguistics of Australia
Author | : Harold Koch,Rachel Nordlinger |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2014-08-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110279771 |
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The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, their genetic relationships, and issues of language maintenance and revitalisation. Australian English, Aboriginal English and other contact varieties are also discussed.
Are Some Languages Better Than Others
Author | : R. M. W. Dixon |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2017-12-14 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0198817835 |
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This book sets out to answer a question that many linguists have been hesitant to ask: are some languages better than others? Can we say, for instance, that because German has three genders and French only two, German is a better language in this respect? Jarawara, spoken in the Amazonian jungle, has two ways of showing possession: one for a part (e.g. 'Father's foot') and the other for something which is owned and can be given away or sold (e.g. 'Father's knife'); is it thus a better language, in this respect, than English, which marks all possession in the same way? R. M. W. Dixon begins by outlining what he feels are the essential components of any language, such as the ability to pose questions, command actions, and provide statements. He then discusses desirable features including gender agreement, tenses, and articles, before concluding with his view of what the ideal language would look like - and an explanation of why it does not and probably never will exist. Written in the author's usual accessible and engaging style, and full of personal anecdotes and unusual linguistic phenomena, the book will be of interest to all general language enthusiasts as well as to a linguistics student audience, and particularly to anyone with an interest in linguistic typology.