Author: William Churchill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beach-la-mar jargon
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Beach-la-mar
Author: William Churchill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beach-la-mar jargon
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beach-la-mar jargon
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Beach-la-mar
Author: Mitch Flynn
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ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages :
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Language
Author: Otto Jespersen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Languages and Their Status
Author: Timothy Shopen
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812212495
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812212495
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
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.
Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin
Author: Otto Jespersen
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This book is a classic work of linguistics, created by one of the most prominent scholars, Otto Jaspersen. The linguistic importance of this book is attributed to the fact that it underlines the importance of the role of the speaker in the natural development of the language. The topics presented in this book include the history of linguistics pre and during the 19th century, the development of child language, the role of the speaker on language development, causes for the linguistic change, etymology, and language development.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This book is a classic work of linguistics, created by one of the most prominent scholars, Otto Jaspersen. The linguistic importance of this book is attributed to the fact that it underlines the importance of the role of the speaker in the natural development of the language. The topics presented in this book include the history of linguistics pre and during the 19th century, the development of child language, the role of the speaker on language development, causes for the linguistic change, etymology, and language development.
Language
Author: Otto Jespersen
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734012619
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Language by Otto Jespersen
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734012619
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Language by Otto Jespersen
American Language
Author: H.L. Mencken
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307808793
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
The American Language, first published in 1919, is H. L. Mencken's book about the English language as spoken in the United States. Mencken was inspired by "the argot of the colored waiters" in Washington, as well as one of his favorite authors, Mark Twain, and his experiences on the streets of Baltimore. In 1902, Mencken remarked on the "queer words which go into the making of 'United States.'" The book was preceded by several columns in The Evening Sun. Mencken eventually asked "Why doesn't some painstaking pundit attempt a grammar of the American language... English, that is, as spoken by the great masses of the plain people of this fair land?" It would appear that he answered his own question. In the tradition of Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary, Mencken wanted to defend "Americanisms" against a steady stream of English critics, who usually isolated Americanisms as borderline barbarous perversions of the mother tongue. Mencken assaulted the prescriptive grammar of these critics and American "schoolmarms", arguing, like Samuel Johnson in the preface to his dictionary, that language evolves independently of textbooks. The book discusses the beginnings of "American" variations from "English", the spread of these variations, American names and slang over the course of its 374 pages. According to Mencken, American English was more colorful, vivid, and creative than its British counterpart.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307808793
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
The American Language, first published in 1919, is H. L. Mencken's book about the English language as spoken in the United States. Mencken was inspired by "the argot of the colored waiters" in Washington, as well as one of his favorite authors, Mark Twain, and his experiences on the streets of Baltimore. In 1902, Mencken remarked on the "queer words which go into the making of 'United States.'" The book was preceded by several columns in The Evening Sun. Mencken eventually asked "Why doesn't some painstaking pundit attempt a grammar of the American language... English, that is, as spoken by the great masses of the plain people of this fair land?" It would appear that he answered his own question. In the tradition of Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary, Mencken wanted to defend "Americanisms" against a steady stream of English critics, who usually isolated Americanisms as borderline barbarous perversions of the mother tongue. Mencken assaulted the prescriptive grammar of these critics and American "schoolmarms", arguing, like Samuel Johnson in the preface to his dictionary, that language evolves independently of textbooks. The book discusses the beginnings of "American" variations from "English", the spread of these variations, American names and slang over the course of its 374 pages. According to Mencken, American English was more colorful, vivid, and creative than its British counterpart.
Pacific Pidgins and Creoles
Author: Darrell T. Tryon
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311089968X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
Pacific Pidgins and Creoles discusses the complex and fascinating history of English-based pidgins in the Pacific, especially the three closely related Melanesian pidgins: Tok Pisin, Pijin, and Bislama. The book details the central role of the port of Sydney and the linguistic synergies between Australia and the Pacific islands in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the role of Pacific islander plantation labor overseas, and the differentiation which has taken place in the pidgins spoken in the Melanesian island states in the 20th century. It also looks at the future of Pacific pidgins at a time of increasing vernacular language endangerment.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311089968X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
Pacific Pidgins and Creoles discusses the complex and fascinating history of English-based pidgins in the Pacific, especially the three closely related Melanesian pidgins: Tok Pisin, Pijin, and Bislama. The book details the central role of the port of Sydney and the linguistic synergies between Australia and the Pacific islands in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the role of Pacific islander plantation labor overseas, and the differentiation which has taken place in the pidgins spoken in the Melanesian island states in the 20th century. It also looks at the future of Pacific pidgins at a time of increasing vernacular language endangerment.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1960
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1960
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1938
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1938
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