Languages: A Very Short Introduction Anderson Stephen
Languages: A Very Short Introduction Anderson Stephen How many languages are there? Why are so many languages disappearing? Are new languages still being discovered? Considering a wide range of…
Specifikacia Languages: A Very Short Introduction Anderson Stephen
Languages: A Very Short Introduction Anderson Stephen
How many languages are there? Why are so many languages disappearing? Are new languages still being discovered?
Considering a wide range of different languages and linguistic examples, Anderson provides the basic facts about the world's major families of spoken languages and their distribution around the globe. In this Very Short Introduction, eminent linguist Stephen Anderson addresses such questions as he illuminates the science behind languages. He explores the basis for linguistic classification and raises questions about how we identify a language.
Considering signed languages as well as spoken, Anderson also examines the wider social issues of losing languages, and their impact on vanishing cultures and