Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages - Brossura

Abley, Mark

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ISBN 10: 0618565833 ISBN 13: 9780618565832

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2005

Riassunto

Explores the linguistic characteristics and oddities of some of the world's threatened languages--including Max, Mohaw, Yiddish, Boro, and more--and the diverse forces, from pop culture to global politics that threaten to destroy many languages and the cultures that spawned them. Reprint.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Mark Abley, an award-winning journalist, writes for the Montreal Gazette, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. He speaks English, French, and a little Welsh. His previous book, Spoken Here, was named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and Discover magazine. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 for work on language change and the future.

Product Description:

In Spoken Here, Mark Abley takes us on a world tour from the Arctic Circle to Oklahoma to Australia in a fervent quest to document some of the world's most endangered languages. His mission is urgent: Of the six thousand languages spoken in the world today, only six hundred may survive into the next century. Abley visits the exotic and frequently remote locales that are home to fading languages and constructs engaging and entertaining portraits of some of the last living speakers of these tongues. Throughout this exhilarating travelogue, he points out that the same forces that put biological species at risk -- development, globalization, loss of habitat -- are also threatening human languages, and with them, something very basic about their speakers' cultures.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0618565833
• ISBN 13: 9780618565832
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 322