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Difference and Repetition in Language Shift to a Creole
Language: en
Pages: 267
Authors: Maïa Ponsonnet
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-08 - Publisher: Routledge

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In today’s global commerce and communication, linguistic diversity is in steady decline across the world as speakers of smaller languages adopt dominant forms
Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages
Language: en
Pages: 1351
Authors: Lívia Körtvélyessy
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-04-01 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world. The publication provides a comprehensive, multi-level description of onom
Approaches to Language and Culture
Language: en
Pages: 572
Authors: Svenja Völkel
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-08-22 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture, and it outlines the broad interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and lingu
Metaphors of ANGER across Languages: Universality and Variation
Language: en
Pages: 750
Authors: Zoltan Kövecses
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-11-04 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Anger is one of the basic emotions of human emotional experience, informing and guiding many of our choices and actions. Although it has received considerable s
Endangered Languages
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Evangelia Adamou
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-08-06 - Publisher: MIT Press

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A concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times. 58% of the world’s languages—or, a
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