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Cover: 9780631233060 | Dying Words | Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

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Beschreibung

The next century will see more than half of the world's 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.

* Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our collective intellectual heritage
* Questions why such linguistic diversity exists in the first place, and how can we can best respond to the challenge of recording and documenting these fragile oral traditions while they are still with us
* Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, and draws on a wealth of vivid examples from his own field experience
* Brings conceptual issues vividly to life by weaving in portraits of individual 'last speakers' and anecdotes about linguists and their discoveries

Über den Autor

Nicholas Evans is Professor of Linguistics at the Australian National University and a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is on the editorial boards of the journals Linguistic Typology and Australian Journal of Linguistics, and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. He is the author of a number of books, including Bininj Gun-wok (2 volumes, 2001), Archaeology and Linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in Global Perspective (co-edited with Patrick McConvell, 1998), and A Grammar of Kayardild (1992).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.

Prologue.

A Note on the Presentation of Linguistic Material.

Part I: The Library of Babel.

Part II: A Great Feast of Languages.

Part III: Faint Tracks in an Ancient Wordscape: Languages and Deep World History.

Part IV: Ratchetting Each Other Up: The Coevolution of Language, Culture, and Thought.

Part V: Listening While We Can.

Epilogue: Sitting in the Dust, Standing in the Sky.

Notes.

References.

Index of Language Names.

General Index.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Rubrik:	Sprachwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	320
Reihe:	The Language Library
Inhalt:	XXII 287 S.
ISBN-13:	9780631233060
ISBN-10:	0631233067
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	1A631233060
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Evans, Nicholas (Australian National University, Australia)
Hersteller:	John Wiley & Sons John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Language Library
Abbildungen:	black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures
Maße:	244 x 170 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Nicholas Evans
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.04.2009
Gewicht:	0,538 kg

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