An introduction both to languages themselves and to their social role, Languages and Their Status gives insight into the meaning, value, and function of language within culture and into the ways language behavior varies and changes. It examines the part languages play in the evolution and structure of communities and, in turn, the ways languages are shaped by the social forces impinging on their speakers.
Each chapter discusses what it means to be a speaker of a particular language and puts that language in context among the languages of the world.
This volume is complemented by a second volume entitled Languages and Their Speakers, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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Along with the other volume in the series, "Languages and their speakers," this is one of the top 10 books on linguistics. The book consists of a set of articles/chapters on various languages. For each language, it walks the reader through an analysis of some grammatical aspect of that language, and it also talks about the social environment of that language and its speakers. For instance, in the chapter on Mohawk, it walks you through an analysis of polysynthetic morphology. (If you're not a linguist: that's a way of forming words that seems very exotic if your native language is English.) It also talks about the near-death of the Mohawk language in Canada, and how an effective language maintenance program was instituted for Mohawk there.The book is very, very readable. I've often used chapters from it as extra-credit assignments in introductory linguistics courses, and I've read it for fun more than once myself.
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The trip across the bridge from Montreal is short: a few moments amid roaring trucks and cars, past the Seagram's factory, and over the murky, swirling St. Lawrence. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gana baie, concord particle, anticipatory endings, back vowels change, medial verb, medial ending, declensional class, buying coconuts, equational sentences, noun class system, absolute tense, relative tense, creole speakers, tone sandhi, functional sentence perspective, animate nouns, pronominal prefixes, central dialects, final verb, verb stem Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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gana baie, concord particle, anticipatory endings, back vowels change, medial verb, medial ending, declensional class, buying coconuts, equational sentences, noun class system, absolute tense, relative tense, creole speakers, tone sandhi, functional sentence perspective, animate nouns, pronominal prefixes, central dialects, final verb, verb stem Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Stem Rule, Soviet Union, East Slavic, Church Slavic, Beijing Mandarin, Ancient Chinese, Cape York Creole, East Africa, New Guinea, New York, South Slavic, Common Slavic, West Slavic, People's Republic of China, Cambridge University Press, Old Russian, Australian English, Russian Empire, Torres Straits Islanders, Bernard Comrie, Cowal Creek, New Hebrides, Recapturing the Mohawk Language, Red Island Point, University of California New!
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- Sound and Symbol in Chinese by Bernhard Karlgren on page 331, and page 332
- The Great Tree and the Longhouse by Hazel W. Hertzberg on page 33
- Word order in Russian by Olga Alekseevna Krylova on page 151
- A Grammar of Akwesasne Mohawk (Ethnology Division Paper) by N. Bonvillain on page 33
- A Dictionary of the Suahili Language by Ludwig Krapf on page 267
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- Patterns of Language by Robbins Burling in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Decolonisation, Globalisation: Language-in-Education Policy and Practice (New Perspectives on Language and Education) by Angel Lin on page 129
- The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Northeast by Kathleen J. Bragdon on page 269
- Gender (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Greville G. Corbett in Back Matter
- Language, Education, and Ideology: Mapping the Linguistic Landscape of U.S. Schools by Timothy Reagan on page 54
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