Dying Words Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

Name: Dying Words Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us
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ISBN: 9780631233060

ISBN-10: 0631233067

ISBN-13: 9780631233060

Edition: 2009

Authors: Nicholas Evans

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Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this book explores what humanity stands to lose with the onset of massive language extinction.

Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 4/9/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue


A Note on the Presentation of Linguistic Material



The Library of Babel



Warramurrungunji's Children



Four Millennia to Tune In



A Great Feast of Languages



A Galapagos of Tongues



Your Mind in Mine: Social Cognition in Grammar



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



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



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



Trellises of the Mind: How Language Trains Thought



What Verse and Verbal Art Can Weave



Listening While We Can



Renewing the Word


Epilogue: Sitting in the Dust, Standing in the Sky


Notes


References


Index of Languages and Language Families


Index