Bilingualism and the Latin language / / J.N. Adams [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Adams J. N (James Noel)
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxviii, 836 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 470/.42
• Soggetto topico: Latin language - Foreign elements; Languages in contact - Rome; Latin language - Influence on foreign languages; Latin language - Foreign words and phrases; Bilingualism - Rome; Code switching (Linguistics) - Rome
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 767-804) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- ; I. Introductory remarks; some issues in the study of bilingualism -- ; II. Bilingualism -- ; III. Elite and sub-elite bilingualism: anecdotal evidence and its shortcomings -- ; IV. Romans, Greeks and others as language learners -- ; V. Code-switching, interference and borrowing -- ; VI. A further note on loan-words -- ; VII. Sources of information -- ; VIII. The authorship of inscriptions -- ; IX. Pidgins and 'reduced' languages -- ; X. Some concluding remarks. ; App. Attitudes to the Greek accent in Latin -- ; 2. Languages in Contact with Latin -- ; I. Introduction -- ; II. Oscan, Umbrian, Venetic, Messapic -- ; III. Etruscan -- ; IV. Celtic (Gaulish) -- ; V. Punic -- ; VI. Libyan, Berber -- ; VII. Aramaic.
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the 1980s, bilingualism has become one of the main themes of sociolinguistics - but there are as yet few large-scale treatments of the subject specific to the ancient world. This book is the first work to deal systematically with bilingualism during a period of antiquity (the Roman period, down to about the fourth century AD) in the light of sociolinguistic discussions of bilingual issues. The general theme of the work is the nature of the contact between Latin and numerous other languages spoken in the Roman world. Among the many issues discussed three are prominent: code-switching (the practice of switching between two languages in the course of a single utterance) and its motivation, language contact as a cause of change in one or both of the languages in contact, and the part played by language choice and language switching in the establishment of personal and group identities.
• Altri titoli varianti: Bilingualism & the Latin Language
• Titolo autorizzato: Bilingualism and the Latin language
• ISBN: 1-280-43443-0; 9786610434435; 0-511-17895-6; 0-511-04273-6; 0-511-14890-9; 0-511-48296-5; 0-511-30609-1; 0-511-05448-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910449680503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II