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Nicholas Evans

Dying Words

Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

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The next century will see more than half of the world's 6,000 languages go extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Yet each language contains its own philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions. This compelling book asks what the cost is to our collective intellectual heritage with the death of these languages. It brings conceptual issues vividly to life by weaving in portraits of individual 'last speakers' and anecdotes about linguists and their discoveries. In exploring what humanity stands to lose with the onset of massive language extinction, Dying Words considers a variety of connected issues: how… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4443-5961-9
  • EAN: 9781444359619
  • Produktnummer: 13871117
  • Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 312 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'714 KB

Über den Autor


Nicholas Evans is Professor of Linguistics at the Australian National University and a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is on the editorial boards of the journals Linguistic Typology and Australian Journal of Linguistics, and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. He is the author of a number of books, including Bininj Gun-wok (2 volumes, 2001), Archaeology and Linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in Global Perspective (co-edited with Patrick McConvell, 1998), and A Grammar of Kayardild (1992).

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