Secret languages of Afghanistan and their speakers. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Otajnych językach Afganistanu i ich użytkownikach.
• Further Information: Note: By Jadwiga Pstrusinska ; translated into English by Agata Lenard ; edited by Agata Lenard and Ben Young.
• Authors: Pstrusinska, Jadwiga
• Editors: Lenard, Agata; Young, Ben
• Other Names: Lenard, Agata translator.
• Contents: On the definition and nature of a secret language -- The ethnolinguistic situation in Afghanistan -- Polish research on the secret languages in Afghanistan -- The secret languages of Afghanistan and their speakers -- On the secret languages of the region -- Ethnic languages functioning as secret ones -- Sacred secret languages -- On the social placement of the speakers of secret languages -- Modes of encoding and secret vocabulary.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 169 pages)
• Subjects: 409.6; Dialect, slang & jargon; Cant -- Afghanistan; Sociolinguistics -- Afghanistan; Afghanistan -- Languages; Language and languages; Sociolinguistics -- Afghanistan; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems; Cant; Language and languages; Sociolinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Bilingualism & multilingualism; Afghanistan -- Languages; Afghanistan; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443864411; 1443864412; 1306992486; 9781306992480
• Related ISBNs: 1443849707; 9781443849708
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-160) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.