{"product_id":"languages-in-the-world-how-history-culture-and-politics-shape-language-9781118531259","title":"Languages in The World  How History Culture and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis innovative introduction outlines the structure and distribution of the world   s languages, charting their evolution over the past 200,000 years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMap 0.1 World map with language families xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFigure 0.1 IPA consonants xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFigure 0.2 IPA vowels xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Website xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Maps and Figures xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Linguistic Preliminaries: Approach and Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroductory Note: On Language 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 All Languages Were Once Spanglish 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mexican State of Coahuila y Tejas 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Is Language? 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Many Languages Are There? 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow and When Did Language Get Started? 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Structure of Spanglish 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinal Note: The Encounter of Spanish and English on Television in the United States 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExercises 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscussion Questions 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Language Loop 22\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Australian Walkabout 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroducing the Language Loop 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage and Cognition 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage, the World, and Culture 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage and Linguistic Structure 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage, Discourse, and Ideology 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Major and Minor Languages 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinal Note: The Contingencies of Time, Place, and Biology 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExercises 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscussion Questions 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Linguistics and Classification 40\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Role of Sanskrit in Philology 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOf Linguistics, Philology, Linguists, and Grammarians 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenetic Classification 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAreal Classification 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTypological Classification 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFunctional Classification 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinal Note: The Role of Sanskrit in India Today 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExercises 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscussion Questions 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Effects of Power\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroductory Note: On Power 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Effects of the Nation-State and the Possibility of Kurdistan 65\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLines Are Drawn in the Sand 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Status of Language on the Eve of the Nation-State 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Epistemology of the Nation-State 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe French Revolution, German Romanticism, and Print Capitalism 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStandardization and the Instilling of Vergonha 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage and Individual Identity 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat’s Race Got to Do with It? 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Problematic Race–Nation–Language Triad 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinal Note: The Kurds Today – Different Places, Different Outcomes 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Profile: Kurdî \/ [Kurdish (Indo-European)] 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExercises 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscussion Questions 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Development of Writing in the Litmus of Religion and Politics 94\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Story of the Qur’¨¡n 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMagico-Religious Interpretations of the Origins of Writing 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSteps Toward the Representation of Speech 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTypes of Writing Systems 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligion and the Spread of Writing Systems 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Always Already Intervention of Politics 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrality and Literacy 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinal Note: Azerbaijan Achieves Alphabetic Autonomy 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Profile: [Arabic (Afro-Asiatic)] 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExercises 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscussion Questions 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Language Planning and Language Law: Shaping the Right to Speak 125\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMelting Snow and Protests at the Top of the World 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Academies: The First Enforcers 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnother Look at Prescriptivism 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking Language Official: A Tale of Three Patterns 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Policy and Education: A Similar Tale of Three Patterns 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Planners and Language Police 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinal Note: Choosing Death or Life 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Profile: [Tibetan (Sino-Tibetan)] 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExercises 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscussion Questions 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Effects of Movement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroductory Note: On Movement 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 A Mobile History: Mapping Language Stocks and Families 161\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAustronesian Origin Stories 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePopulation Genetics and Links to Language 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Possible Polynesian Reconstruction 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLinguistic Reconstructions Revisited 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProto-Indo-European and Its Homeland 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOther Language Stocks and Their Homelands 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModels of Spread 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLost Tracks 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinal Note: On Density and Diversity 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Profile: 'Olelo Hawai'i [Hawaiian (Austronesian)] 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExercises 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscussion Questions 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Colonial Consequences: Language Stocks and Families Remapped 198\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEiffel Towers in Vietnam 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTime-Depths and Terminology 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Middle Kingdom: Government-Encouraged Migrations 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLinguistic Geography: Residual Zones and Spread Zones 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpreading Eurasian Empires: The Persians, Mongols, Slavs, and Romans 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligions as First Nations and Missionaries as Colonizers 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnglish as an Emergent Language Family 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinal Note: Creoles and the Case of Kreyòl Ayisyen 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Profile: Tiéng Việt [Vietnamese (Austro-Asiatic)] 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExercises 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscussion Questions 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Postcolonial Complications: Violent Outcomes 230\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTamil Tigers Create New Terrorist Techniques 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat’s in a Name? Burma\/Myanmar 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModern Sudan: The Clash of Two Colonialisms 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Caucasian Quasi-States: Two Types of Conflict 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoland’s Shifting Borders 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTerrorism on the Iberian Peninsula: Basque and the ETA 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuébécois Consciousness and the Turbulent 1960s 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Zapatista Uprising and Indigenous Languages in Chiapas 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinal Note: The Parsley Massacre in the Dominican Republic 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Profile: Tamil (Dravidian) 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExercises 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscussion Questions 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Effects of Time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroductory Note: On Time 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 The Remote Past: Language Becomes Embodied 261\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLook There! 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeeking Linguistic Bedrock 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Primate Body and Human Adaptations to Language 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvolution in Four Dimensions 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Genetic Story 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrammatical Categories and Deep-Time Linguistics 275\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComplexity and the Arrow of Time 279\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinal Note: The Last Stone Age Man in North America 282\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Profile: !Xóõ [Taa (Khoisan)] 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExercises 288\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscussion Questions 288\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 289\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 291\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 The Recorded Past: 'Catching Up to Conditions' Made Visible 292\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMongolian Horses 292\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: The Invariable Word in English 294\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: The Shift to Head-Marking in French 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Writing and e-Arabic 299\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Mongolian Cases 301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Reformulating Hawaiian Identity 304\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Varieties of Chinese – Yesterday and Today 306\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Juba Arabic Pidgin, Nubi, and Other African Creoles 310\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinal Note: Language Change in Progress 313\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Profile: [Mongolian (Mongolic)] 315\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExercises 320\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscussion Questions 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 322\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 The Imagined Future: Globalization and the Fate of Endangered Languages 324\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGold in the Mayan Highlands 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond the Nation-State: The Globalized New Economy 325\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoney Talks: What Language Does It Speak? 327\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen the Language Loop Unravels 329\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Hotspots 332\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRethinking Endangerment 334\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTechnology to the Rescue 336\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnishinaabemowin Revitalization in Wisconsin 339\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Is Choice? 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinal Note: Our Advocacies 342\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Profile: K'iche' [Quiché (Mayan)] 342\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExercises 347\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscussion Questions 349\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 350\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary 353\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index 359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Index 373\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406886117719,"sku":"9781118531259","price":80.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118531259.jpg?v=1730497447","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/languages-in-the-world-how-history-culture-and-politics-shape-language-9781118531259","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}