The volume is a handbook on the history of language and culture of the agriculture areas of Eurasia, Pacific and Amazon, based on contemporary and historical lexical, cultural and typological data from 17 families and 400 languages.
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Language: en
Pages: 500
Pages: 500
Books about The Mouton Atlas of Languages and Cultures
Language: en
Pages: 704
Pages: 704
As the most widely documented language in human history, English holds a unique key to unlocking some of the mysteries of the uniquely human endowment of language. Yet the field of World Englishes has remained somewhat marginal in linguistic theory. This collection heralds a more direct and mutually constructive engagement
Language: en
Pages: 523
Pages: 523
The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a thorough overview of Australian languages, including their linguistic structures, their genetic relationships, and issues of language maintenance and revitalisation.
Language: en
Pages: 399
Pages: 399
This book investigates the study of World Englishes from the perspective of Cultural Linguistics, a theoretical and analytical framework for cultural cognition, cultural conceptualisations and language that employs and expands on the analytical tools and theoretical advancements in a number of disciplines, including cognitive psychology/science, anthropology, distributed cognition, and complexity
Language: en
Pages: 438
Pages: 438
A Survey of Modern English covers a wide selection of aspects of the modern English language. Fully revised and updated, the major focus of the third edition lies in Standard American and British English individually and in comparison with each other. Over and beyond that, this volume treats other Englishes