Words of wonder : endangered languages and what they tell us /: endangered languages and what they tell us. (2022)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Words of wonder : endangered languages and what they tell us /: endangered languages and what they tell us. (2022)
- Main Title:
- Words of wonder : endangered languages and what they tell us
- 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.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.768195
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