Languages in the world : how history, culture, and politics shape language / / Julie Tetel Andresen, Phillip M. Carter

• Autore: Andresen Julie Tetel <1950->
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (445 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.44
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Globalization; Language and culture - History; Languages in contact; Historical linguistics; Sociolinguistics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): CarterPhillip M.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page; Copyright; Map 0.1 World map with language families; Figure 0.1 IPA consonants; Figure 0.2 IPA vowels; About the Website; Preface; To Our Readers; Part I Linguistic Preliminaries; Introductory Note: On Language; 1 All Languages Were Once Spanglish; The Mexican State of Coahuila y Tejas; What Is Language?; How Many Languages Are There?; How and When Did Language Get Started?; The Structure of Spanglish; Final Note: The Encounter of Spanish and English on Television in the United States; Exercises; Discussion Questions; Notes; References; Further Reading; 2 The Language Loop ; The Australian Walk about Introducing the Language Loop; Language and Cognition; Language, the World, and Culture; Language and Linguistic Structure; Language, Discourse, and Ideology; On Major and Minor Languages; Final Note: The Contingencies of Time, Place, and Biology; Exercises; Discussion Questions; Notes; References; Further Reading; 3 Linguistics and Classification; The Role of Sanskrit in Philology; Of Linguistics, Philology, Linguists, and Grammarians; Genetic Classification; Areal Classification; Typological Classification; Functional Classification ; Final Note: The Role of Sanskrit in India Today Exercises; Discussion Questions; Notes; References; Further Reading; Part II Effects of Power; Introductory Note: On Power; 4 Effects of the Nation-State and the Possibility of Kurdistan; Lines Are Drawn in the Sand; The Status of Language on the Eve of the Nation-State; The Epistemology of the Nation-State; The French Revolution, German Romanticism, and Print Capitalism; Standardization and the Instilling of Vergonha; Language and Individual Identity; What's Race Got to Do with It?; The Problematic Race-Nation-Language Triad ; Final Note: The Kurds Today - Different Places, Different Outcomes Language Profile: Kurdî / [Kurdish (Indo-European)]; Exercises; Discussion Questions; Notes; References; Further Reading; 5 The Development of Writing in the Litmus of Religion and Politics; The Story of the Qur'an; Magico-Religious Interpretations of the Origins of Writing; Steps Toward the Representation of Speech; Types of Writing Systems; Religion and the Spread of Writing Systems; The Always Already Intervention of Politics; Orality and Literacy; Final Note: Azerbaijan Achieves Alphabetic Autonomy ; Language Profile: [Arabic (Afro-Asiatic)]Exercises; Discussion Questions; Notes; References; Further Reading; 6 Language Planning and Language Law; Melting Snow and Protests at the Top of the World; Language Academies: The First Enforcers; Another Look at Prescriptivism; Making Language Official: A Tale of Three Patterns; Language Policy and Education: A Similar Tale of Three Patterns; Language Planners and Language Police; Final Note: Choosing Death or Life; Language Profile: [Tibetan (Sino-Tibetan)]; Exercises; Discussion Questions; Notes; References; Further Reading ; Part III Effects of Movement
• Titolo autorizzato: Languages in the world
• ISBN: 1-118-53115-9; 1-118-53122-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460465203321
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