Words of wonder : endangered languages and what they tell us /: endangered languages and what they tell us. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Dying words
• Further Information: Note: Nicholas Evans.
• Authors: Evans, Nicholas, 1956-
• Contents: Words of Wonder – Contents; ; Preface to the Second Edition vi Acknowledgments for the First Edition ix Prologue xiv About the Companion Website xx Part I The Library of Babel 1 1 Warramurrungunji’s Children 5 2 Four Millennia to Tune In 24 Part II A Great Feast of Languages 45 3 A Galapagos of Tongues 49 4 Your Mind in Mine: Social Cognition in Grammar 70 Part III Faint Tracks in an Ancient Wordscape: Languages and Deep World History 83 5 Sprung from Some Common Source 85 6 Travels in the Logosphere: Hooking Ancient Words onto Ancient Worlds 105 7 Keys to Decipherment: How Living Languages Can Unlock Forgotten Scripts 129 Part IV Ratchetting Up Each Other: The Coevolution of Language, Culture, and Thought 153 8 Trellises of the Mind: How Language Trains Thought 157 9 What Verse and Verbal Art Can Weave 185 Part V On the Brink 205 10 Listening While We Can 207 Part VI Afterword 231 Epilogue: In the Shade of the Casuarina 233 Outro: Reawakening the Word 236 References 255 Maps 257 Index of Languages and Language Families 280 Index 286
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Chichester : Wiley Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 408.9; Endangered languages; Language obsolescence; Language obsolescence -- Social aspects; Linguistic minorities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119758778
• Related ISBNs: 9781119758754
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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