Автор: Stephen Anderson
Название: Languages: A Very Short Introduction
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-959059-9
Язык: English
Формат: epub
Размер: 16,4 mb
Страниц: 152
Considering a wide range of different languages and linguistic examples, Anderson provides the basic facts about the world's major families of spoken languages and their distribution around the globe. He explores the basis for linguistic classification and raises questions about how we identify a language. Considering signed languages as well as spoken, Anderson also examines the wider social issues of losing languages, and their impact on vanishing cultures and peoples.
