Spoken Here [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Abley, Mark

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ISBN 10: 0434011533 ISBN 13: 9780434011537

Casa editrice: William Heinemann, 2004

Riassunto

Half the world's languages are threatened with extinction over the next century, as English and the rest of the world's top twenty languages dirve all before them. What ways of looking at the world will die along with them, what cultural riches, what experiences, histories and memories? And how does it feel to be one of the last remaining speakers of a languages that is on its way to extinction? What chance is there of saving any of these languages? And is it feasible in the long term or even worthwhile?

Mark Abley's journeys among the speakers of languages at the brink takes him to aboriginal Australia (where he meets the last surviving fluent male speaker of Mati Ke, who cannot speak to the only other fluent speaker, as she is his sister and in their culture it is forbidden to speak to siblings once one has reached puberty), and to American Indian reservations, as well as to places where the languages are fighting back - Wales, the Faeroe islands, the Isle of Man - as well as charting the triumphant return of Hebrew.

(2003-04-02)

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Descrizione del libro:

Both fascinating and moving, award-winning journalist Mark Abley's travels to visit the world's dying and threatened languages and the people who speak them. Last Chance to See, but of languages rather than animals. (2003-04-02)

L'autore:

Mark Abley, a winner of Canada's National Newspaper Award, has written for the TLS, the Toronto Globe and Mail and the Montreal Gazette, and other publications. He speaks English, French, and a little Welsh. (2003-06-23)

Su questa edizione

• Editore: William Heinemann
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0434011533
• ISBN 13: 9780434011537
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 336