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"Taking readers on a rollicking ride through history, a master storyteller and reporter, whose legend began in journalism, presents a paradigm-shifting argument that speech, not evolution, is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements"--NoveList.
"Before Tom Wolfe was a bestselling novelist, he was a groundbreaking journalist. Now the maestro storyteller turns his attention to the mystery behind the creation of his own most important...
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"We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. Race, class, and gender affect this social identity, but one overlooked factor can be even more powerful: the way we speak. As pioneering psychologist Katherine Kinzler reveals in How You Say It, that's because our speech largely reflects the voices we heard as children. We can change how we speak to some extent, whether by "code-switching" between dialects or learning a new language. But for...
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A bold and provocative study that presents language not as an innate component of the brain--as most linguists do--but as an essential tool unique to each culture worldwide. For years, the prevailing opinion among academics has been that language is embedded in our genes, existing as an innate and instinctual part of us. But linguist Daniel Everett argues that, like other tools, language was invented by humans and can be reinvented or lost. He shows...
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Part travelogue and part scientist's notebook, The Last Speakers is the poignant chronicle of author K. David Harrison's expeditions around the world to meet with last speakers of vanishing languages. The speakers' eloquent reflections and candid photographs reveal little-known lifeways as well as revitalization efforts to teach disappearing languages to younger generations. Thought-provoking and engaging, this unique book illuminates the global language-extinction...
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This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned...
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"We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. Race, class, and gender affect this social identity, but one overlooked factor can be even more powerful: the way we speak. As pioneering psychologist Katherine Kinzler reveals in How You Say It, that's because our speech largely reflects the voices we heard as children. We can change how we speak to some extent, whether by "code-switching" between dialects or learning a new language. But for...
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"What exactly is African American Vernacular English? Learn about this interesting and unique language, as well as how it fits into modern society in the children's book Language in Society. This kid's book takes children on a linguistic journey to learn about the differences between AAVE and other languages. The nonfiction book features before- and after-reading questions, a photo glossary, and an extension activity to enhance reading comprehension...
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"A presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton explores the hidden power of analogy to fuel thought, connect ideas, spark innovation, and shape outcomes From the meatpacking plants that inspired Henry Ford's first moving assembly line to the "domino theory" that led America into Vietnam to the "bicycle for the mind" that Steve Jobs envisioned as the Macintosh computer, analogies have played a dynamic role in shaping the world around us-and still do...
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"El silencio de todos los seres humanos, hombres y mujeres, ancianos y niños, debería ser más alabado, más protegido, mejor resguardado. No sólo el silencio, sino ese silencio activo que es la capacidad de escucha [... ] que quisiéramos todos ver mejor distribuida entre los dones de este mundo".
Una sucesión de diversas escenas presenta al lenguaje, en estas páginas, como protagonista e invitado permanente. La palabra cercada de silencio,...
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This volume delves into the discursive construction of three closely linked linguistic functions: evaluation, emotion, and persuasion in order to explore how they may intertwine. The discourse genres examined comprise business pitches, political debates, media discourse, fiction, social networks, etc., either in English or Spanish. The editors bring together a miscellanea of papers written by scholars from different Spanish universities and with different...
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Este libro ofrece un acercamiento a la sociolingüística y al estudio del lenguaje y la sociedad, que luego se aplica al análisis del español hablado en Estados Unidos. Además de proporcionar información clave sobre la demografía y la historia del español en dicho país, se analiza su situación sociopolítica, la relación de la lengua con las identidades latinxs, y las formas en que las ideologías y políticas lingüísticas reflejan y condicionan...
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"La antigua avenida poblada de diccionarios somnolientos ha desembocado en un tapiz formidable donde se entrecruzan sombras y colores, donde vibran recuerdos y se arrinconan en gamas grises los olvidos. La ira que se identifica con la pasión y la pasión que se bautiza como sufrimiento, el aullido de la avaricia y la bizquera de la envidia, el estro de la inspiración y el estrógeno del sexo, la leche del amor, los trenos de la tristeza y la velocidad...
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"El lenguaje es un amenazante peligro para la civilización mercantilista, por su estructura única e indestructible, que ningún mercado puede poner en jaque. Por eso, para los sectores del poder es perentorio, dada la resistencia del lenguaje, volverlo invisible e inaudible, cortarnos de esa fuente inconsciente y solidaria de placer que brilla en el habla popular."
Ivonne Bordelois explora en este libro la dimensión subversiva del lenguaje desde...
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To date, there has been no published textbook which takes into account changing sociolinguistic dynamics that have influenced South African society. Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication breaks new ground in this arena. The scope of this book ranges from macro-sociolinguistic questions pertaining to language policies and their implementation (or non-implementation) to micro-sociolinguistic observations of actual language-use in verbal interaction,...
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This volume accounts for the motives for contemporary lexical borrowing from English, using a comparative approach and a broad cross-cultural perspective. It investigates the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary into new environments and the extent of their integration into twelve languages representing several language families, including Icelandic, Dutch, French, Russian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, Persian, Japanese,...
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Este libro aborda el fenómeno lenguaje inclusivo desde una perspectiva integral, en base a un detallado análisis lingüístico, social y político, y con argumentos poco visitados en otros trabajos sobre el tema. Repasa críticamente todos los discursos a favor y en contra escuchados hasta el momento, y ofrece además una genealogía nacional, regional y mundial, tan necesaria para pensar los alcances de esta inquietante intervención en la lengua...
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Chasseur, pêcheur, trappeur et homme politique, Taamusi Qumaq (1914-1993) est considéré comme l'un des grands penseurs des Inuit du Nunavik. Bien qu'unilingue en inuktitut, ce «personnage exceptionnel», comme le présente ici Louis-Jacques Dorais, a consacré sa vie à consigner, à l'écrit, la vie des siens ainsi que leur langue, et il s'est à ce titre mérité la reconnaissance de plusieurs institutions, dont celle de l'Assemblée nationale...
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This important contribution to the sociolinguistics of Asian languages breaks new ground in the study of language standards and standardization in two key ways: in its focus on Asia, with particular attention paid to China and its neighbours, and in the attention paid to multilingual contexts. The chapters address various kinds of (sometimes hidden) multilingualism and examine the interactions between multilingualism and language standardization,...
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