Tetel Andresen / Carter Languages In The World

How History, Culture, and Politics Shape Language
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-118-53115-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten, E-Book

This innovative introduction outlines the structure anddistribution of the world's languages, charting theirevolution over the past 200,000 years.
* Balances linguistic analysis with socio-historical andpolitical context, offering a cohesive picture of the relationshipbetween language and society
* Provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the study oflanguage by drawing not only on the diverse fields of linguistics(structural, linguist anthropology, historical, sociolinguistics),but also on history, biology, genetics, sociology, and more
* Includes nine detailed language profiles on Kurdish, Arabic,Tibetan, Hawaiian, Vietnamese, Tamil, !Xóõ (Taa),Mongolian, and Quiché
* A companion website offers a host of supplementary materialsincluding, sound files, further exercises, and detailedintroductory information for students new to linguistics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tetel Andresen, Julie

Carter, Phillip M.

Über Autor(innen)

Julie Tetel Andresen is Professor of English and formerChair of Linguistic at Duke University. A linguistichistoriographer focusing on French, German, British, and Americantheories of language from the eighteenth to the twenty-firstcenturies, she is the author of Linguistics and Evolution:A Developmental Approach (2013) and Linguistics inAmerica 1769-1924: A Critical History (1996).
Phillip M. Carter is Assistant Professor of English andLinguistics at Florida International University. Specializing inimmigrant and ethnolinguistic minority communities in the UnitesStates, his work on the language varieties and cultural practicesof U.S. Latinos has been published in leading journals,including Language in Society, EnglishWorldwide, Journal ofSociolinguistics, American Speech,and Language in Linguistics Compass.