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The Last Language on Earth
Language: en
Pages: 329
Authors: Piers Kelly
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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"The Eskayan language of Bohol in the southern Philippines has been an object of controversy ever since it came to light in the early 1980s. Written in an unusu
The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Ruth S. Noel
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks

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This is the book on all of Tolkien's invented languages, spoken by hobbits, elves, and men of Middle-earth -- a dicitonary of fourteen languages, an English-Elv
Earth Emotions
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Glenn A. Albrecht
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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As climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are ove
Language Parasites: Of Phorontology
Language: en
Pages: 138
Authors: Sean Braune
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-04 - Publisher: punctum books

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"What we call "Being" infects us and speaks through us - it treats us as a host to a linguistic and experiential parasite. Ontology - the study of Being - has p
Dialect Diversity in America
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: William Labov
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-17 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect
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