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Dying words : endangered languages and what they have to tell us / Nicholas Evans.
"The next century will see more than half of the world's 6,000 languages become extinct. Most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Yet each distills the philosophy, knowledge, and cultural fabric of a different people. This compelling book asks what loss to our collective intellectual heritage will be inflicted by the death of these languages. This book: 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 best respond to the challenge of recording and documenting these fragile oral traditions while they are still with us -- Brings conceptual issues vividly to life by weaving in portraits of individual ? last speakers? and anecdotes about linguists and their discoveries." -- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780631233053
- ISBN: 9780631233060
- ISBN: 0631233059
- Physical Description: xxii, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-269) and indexes. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | A note on the presentation of linguistic material -- Warramurrungunji's children -- Four millennia to tune In -- A Galapagos of tongues -- Your mind in mine : social cognition in grammar -- Sprung from some common source -- Travels in the logosphere : hooking ancient words onto ancient worlds -- Keys to decipherment : how living languages can unlock forgotten scripts -- Trellises of the mind : how language trains thought -- What verse and verbal art can weave -- Renewing the word -- Epilogue : Sitting in the dust, standing in the sky. |
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| Subject: | Endangered languages. |
| Genre: | Informational works. |
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| 264 | . | ‡aChichester, U.K. ; ‡aMalden, MA : ‡bWiley-Blackwell, ‡c2010. | |
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