Speak : a short history of languages /
This is a history of human speech from prehistory onwards. It charts the rise of some languages and the fall of others, explaining why some survive and others die. It shows how languages change their sounds and meanings, and how the history of languages is closely linked to the history of peoples. T...
| Основен автор: | Janson, Tore, 1936- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=150034 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Speak. |
Съдържание:
- ""Title Page""; ""Contents""; ""List of Maps""; ""List of Tables""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Languages Before History""; ""When did languages come into being?""; ""Forty thousand or two million years?""; ""What was the reason?""; ""The languages of gatherers and hunters""; ""Were languages then just like languages now?""; ""Vocabulary and society""; ""How many khoisan languages are there?""; """"What language do you speak?"" ""Don't know.""""; ""What is a language?""; ""How many languages existed twelve thousand years ago?""; ""Chapter 2: The Large Language Groups""
- ""Germanic, Slavic, Romance""""Indo- European languages""; ""Bantu languages""; ""What is a bantu language like?""; ""Other language groups""; ""How language groups were formed""; ""Chapter 3: Writing and the Egyptians""; ""River valleys and states""; ""The State, the language, and the script""; ""Hieroglyphs""; ""Writing systems and society""; ""Chapter 4: Greek and the Greeks""; ""Language and alphabet""; ""Language as creation""; ""Are languages equal?""; ""Alphabet and dialect""; ""From city states to empire""; ""The new Greek""; ""Learning from the Greeks""
- ""Chapter 5: Latin and the Romans""""Empire and language""; ""Language shift and language extinction""; ""Latin as an international language""; ""Latin: the language for the European union?""; ""The influence of Latin""; ""Chapter 6: Did Dante Write in Italian?""; ""How languages become languages""; ""Latin and French""; ""0c, Oil, and Si""; ""Written language and language name""; ""Did Dante write in Latin?""; ""Chapter 7: From Germanic to Modern English""; ""How English came to Britain""; ""Germans, Angles, Saxons""; ""The language of the Angles and Saxons""; ""Runes in Britain""
- ""The Roman script and English""""The first centuries of English literature""; ""Bede, Latin, and English""; ""King Alfred and West Saxon""; ""Normans and French""; ""The new English""; ""The new standard English""; ""Nation state and national language""; ""Chapter 8: The Era of National Languages""; ""State, school, and languages""; ""National languages and national poets""; ""Language and politics""; ""The language competition""; ""Chapter 9: Languages of Europe and of the World""; ""Portuguese in the west""; ""Spaniards, Englishmen, and the others""
- ""America
- a continent with three languages""""Portugal and the rest of the world""; ""English overseas""; ""What happened?""; ""Chapter 10: How Languages Are Born -or Made""; ""Slave trade, language mutilation, and language birth""; ""Are creole languages languages?""; ""The remarkable similarities""; ""Creole languages and language change""; ""Afrikaans
- Germanic and African""; ""Afrikaans
- dialect or Creole language?""; ""Norwegian
- one language or two?""; ""How spoken language becomes written language
- or vice versa""; ""How languages come into being""