Languages of Class
Title | Languages of Class PDF eBook |
Author | Gareth Stedman Jones |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521276313 |
This book challenges the predominant conceptions of the meaning and development of 'class consciousness'.
Languages of Class
Title | Languages of Class PDF eBook |
Author | Gareth Stedman Jones |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1987 |
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ISBN |
Languages of Class
Title | Languages of Class PDF eBook |
Author | Gareth Stedman Jones |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780521256483 |
Through the Language Glass
Title | Through the Language Glass PDF eBook |
Author | Guy Deutscher |
Publisher | Metropolitan Books |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2010-08-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1429970111 |
A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how—and whether—culture shapes language and language, culture Linguistics has long shied away from claiming any link between a language and the culture of its speakers: too much simplistic (even bigoted) chatter about the romance of Italian and the goose-stepping orderliness of German has made serious thinkers wary of the entire subject. But now, acclaimed linguist Guy Deutscher has dared to reopen the issue. Can culture influence language—and vice versa? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? Could our experience of the world depend on whether our language has a word for "blue"? Challenging the consensus that the fundaments of language are hard-wired in our genes and thus universal, Deutscher argues that the answer to all these questions is—yes. In thrilling fashion, he takes us from Homer to Darwin, from Yale to the Amazon, from how to name the rainbow to why Russian water—a "she"—becomes a "he" once you dip a tea bag into her, demonstrating that language does in fact reflect culture in ways that are anything but trivial. Audacious, delightful, and field-changing, Through the Language Glass is a classic of intellectual discovery.
Social Class Language and Education
Title | Social Class Language and Education PDF eBook |
Author | Denis Lawton |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2006-10-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134685130 |
Titles in the Class, Race and Social Structure set of the International Library of Sociology consider every problem of socio-political importance that affected society in the years following the Second World War.
Languages of the World
Title | Languages of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Asya Pereltsvaig |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2012-02-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107002788 |
Introduces readers to the rich diversity of human languages, familiarizing them with the variety of languages around the world.
The Bantu Languages
Title | The Bantu Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Nurse |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 727 |
Release | 2006-03-21 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1135796831 |
Gerard Philippson is Professor of Bantu Languages at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and is a member of the Dyamique de Langage research team of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon II University. He has mainly worked on comparative Bantu tonology. Other areas of interest include Afro-Asiatic, general phonology, linguistic classification and its correlation with population genetics.