Languages In The World: How History, Culture, and Politics Shape LanguageThis innovative introduction outlines the structure and distribution of the world’s languages, charting their evolution over the past 200,000 years.
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Contents
All Languages Were Once Spanglish | 4 |
The Structure of Spanglish | 13 |
Exercises | 37 |
Linguistics and Classification | 40 |
Effects of Power | 63 |
The Development of Writing in the Litmus of Religion and Politics | 94 |
Shaping the Right to Speak | 125 |
Effects of Movement | 159 |
Basque and the ETA | 244 |
References | 257 |
Introducing the Language Loop | 263 |
Catching Up to Conditions Made Visible | 292 |
Globalization and the Fate | 324 |
Glossary | 353 |
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