Author: Shopen, Timothy
Title: Languages and Their Status
Description: Cambridge: Winthrop, 1979. Hard bound, 1st edition, few illustrations, 335pp, text scored on couple of pages w/previous owner name front free endpaper else very good in lightly edge-torn yet near very good dust jacket. 670 grams. This volume examines the part languages play in the evolution and structure of communities and in turn the ways in which languages are shaped by the social forces impinging on their speakers. The distinguished scholars who have contributed chapters on specific languages in this volume are: Marianne Mithun and Wallace L. Chafe (Mohawk); John Haiman (Hua);

Keywords: Languages, Culture, Applied Linguistics, Mohawk Language, Russian, Hua, Papuan, Swahili, Creole, Chinese Education/Teaching Linguistics 0876264852


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