| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 287 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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The language library |
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Language library
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| Contents |
Part I. The Library of Babel. 1 Warramurrungunji's Children ; 2 Four Millennia to Tune In -- Part II. A Great Feast of Languages. 3 A Galapagos of Tongues ; 4 Your Mind in Mine : Social Cognition in Grammar -- Part III. Faint Tracks in an Ancient Wordscape : Languages and Deep World History. 5 Sprung from Some Common Source ; 6 Travels in the Logosphere : Hooking Ancient Words onto Ancient Worlds ; 7 Keys to Decipherment : How Living Languages Can Unlock Forgotten Scripts -- Part IV. Ratchetting Each Other Up : The Coevolution of Language, Culture, and Thought. 8 Trellises of the Mind : How Language Trains Thought ; 9 What Verse and Verbal Art Can Weave -- Part V. Listening While We Can. 10 Renewing the Word |
| Summary |
"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"--Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-269) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Endangered languages.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
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Endangered languages.
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Sprachtod
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Kultur
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Språkdöd.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781444310450 |
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1444310453 |
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9781444310443 |
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1444310445 |
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9781444359619 |
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1444359614 |
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