Lingo
Around Europe in Sixty Languages
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2015]
Format: Book
Description: 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
"Spins the reader on a whirlwind tour of sixty European languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and differences ... [and taking] us into today's remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word 'you' in conversation"--Amazon.com.
Other Authors:
Dorren, Gaston. Taaltoerisme.
Audring, Jenny, 1977- author.
Watson, Frauke, author.
Edwards, Alison, 1983- translator.
Dorren, Gaston. Taaltoerisme.
Audring, Jenny, 1977- author.
Watson, Frauke, author.
Edwards, Alison, 1983- translator.
Contents:
What Europeans speak -- Next of tongue : Languages and their families -- Past perfect discontinuous : Languages and their history -- War and peace : Languages and politics -- Werds, wirds, wurds ... : Written and spoken -- Nuts and bolts : Languages and their vocabulary -- Talking by the book : Languages and their grammar -- Intensive care : Languages on the brink and beyond -- Movers and shakers : Linguists who left their mark -- Warts and all : Linguistic portrait studies.
Subjects:
Language and culture -- Europe.
Philology.
Language and languages -- Variation.
Europe -- Languages.
Language and culture -- Europe.
Philology.
Language and languages -- Variation.
Europe -- Languages.
ISBN:
9780802124074
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LANGUAGE Dor | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Originally published: London : Profile Books, 2014.
Based on the author's Taaltoerisme : feiten en verhalen over 53 Europese talen.
Map on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-286) and index.
Based on the author's Taaltoerisme : feiten en verhalen over 53 Europese talen.
Map on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-286) and index.