Download or read book Variedades Ling sticas Y Lenguas En Contacto En El Mundo De Habla Hispana written by NILSA LASSO - VON LANG and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-04-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El presente volumen ofrece una revisin general de la situacin del espaol como lengua en contacto con otras lenguas en diversos pases del mundo hispano. Cada seccin del libro cubre un rea o pas dentro de Espaa, Latinoamrica y el Caribe, donde el espaol convive con otras lenguas desde hace siglos.

Download or read book The Intricacy of Languages written by Francesc Feliu and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If, as we believe, the history of languages is the history of the construction of an ideal artefact that permits a specific interpretation of the linguistic reality and helps to approve and assimilate a certain zone of diversity, enabling the accumulation of collective historical knowledge and making us identify it with a social community and a territory, then it must be agreed that languages are extremely complex entities. The new linguistic diversity that cultural globalisation and recent population movements have installed in most traditional linguistic territories has probably put the ideology of the national language into a state of crisis and, as a consequence, has made the ancient, intrinsic diversity of all languages visible, at least to the extent that this is still possible. Nowadays, then, the old linguistic diversity of dialects, of parlances, of local lexicons and the cultural forms that are reflected in these, of varieties and previously unsuccessful linguistic entities has been given a new opportunity in a world where the cohesion of societies and the welfare of citizens must be guaranteed using all available means. Looked at this way, the intricacy of languages may even open up an opportunity for local economic and social development.

Download or read book Linguistic Genocide or Superdiversity written by Reetta Toivanen and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we facing an immense wave of language death or a period of remarkable new linguistic variation? Or both? This book answers this question by analysing studies of language endangerment and loss along with those of language change, revitalization and diversity. Using case studies from Russia and the EU, the authors compare historical language variation to that of the present day, arguing that accelerated language extinction can be considered a result of colonization, modernization and globalization, but so too can many new creoles, intertwined and mixed languages, new ethnic identities, new groups of urban dwellers or migrant groups, all with their own distinct cultural traits. The book therefore surmises that the linguistic heritage of today is simultaneously more endangered and more diverse than ever before.

Download or read book The History of Basque written by R. L. Trask and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basque is the sole survivor of the very ancient languages of Western Europe. This book, written by an internationally renowned specialist in Basque, provides a comprehensive survey of all that is known about the prehistory of the language, including pronunciation, the grammar and the vocabulary. It also provides a long critical evaluation of the search for its relatives, as well as a thumbnail sketch of the language, a summary of its typological features, an external history and an extensive bibliography.

Download or read book Language in Late Capitalism written by Alexandre Duchêne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship are increasingly recast in economic terms as a matter of added value. It argues that this discursive shift is connected to specific characteristics of the globalized new economy in what can be thought of as "late capitalism". Through ten ethnographic case studies, it demonstrates the complex ways in which older nationalist ideologies which invest language with value as a source of pride get bound up with newer neoliberal ideologies which invest language with value as a source of profit. The complex interaction between these modes of mobilizing linguistic resources challenges some of our ideas about globalization, hinting that we are in a period of intensification of modernity, in which the limits of the nation-State are stretched, but not (yet) undone. At the same time, this book argues, this intensification also calls into question modernist ways of looking at language and identity, requiring a more serious engagement with capitalism and how it constitutes symbolic (including linguistic) as well as material markets.

Download or read book Barter Money and Coinage in the Ancient Mediterranean written by Ma. Paz García-Bellido and published by Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La acuñación de moneda es, junto con la escritura, uno de los grandes inventos de la historia de la humanidad. La escritura ha sido esencial en la transmisión de ideas y conocimientos a través del tiempo y el dinero ha jugado un papel muy importante en la fermentación de la evolución política y social de los grupos humanos. Muy pocas cosas han condicionado la economía de manera más directa que la moneda , con sus efectos concomitantes sobre las ideologías políticas de nuestro universo.. Hemos confirmado que nunca la invención del dinero supuso una evolución lineal de proto-monetaria a la economía monetaria y también que no se llevó a cabo al mismo ritmo en los diferentes espacios culturales del Mediterráneo. Esta es una de las conclusiones más importantes de nuestra conferencia. Desde la invención de la moneda en Lidia, al final del siglo 7 aC, a la monetización de los hispanos del norte-oeste, o del interior de la Galia y Germania en la época de Augusto, 600 años que abarca toda una cadena de acontecimientos históricos importantes tuvo que pasar a la monetización de ser aceptados en las economías sociales, culturales y políticas, ya que el uso del dinero, tal vez no en su origen, pero definitivamente después, ayudó a los polis en sus intentos de equilibrar el equilibrio social. De hecho, 200 años después que se inventara el dinero, Aristóteles seguía filosofando sobre esto, y escribió sobre las relaciones de intercambio entre las comunidades el derecho a la reciprocidad que mantiene la sociedad civil, sobre la base de la proporción y no en la igualdad ... es el objeto que marca una justicia equitativa y que se da expresamente la no misma palabra, que significa "lo que se debe", "lo que es proporcional", "la medida correcta".

Download or read book De Lingua Vasconum written by Rudolf P. G. de Rijk and published by Universidad del Pais Vasco. This book was released on 1998 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compte-rendu de Luis Michelena: Fonética histórica vasca. Is Basque an S.O.V. language? Vowel interaction in Biscayan Basque. Relative clauses in Basque: a guided tour. Studies in Basque syntax: relative clauses. Partitive assignment in Basque. Topic fronting, focus positioning and the nature of the verb phrase in Basque. Erlatiboak idazle zaharrengan. Euskal morfologiaren zenbait gorabehera. Un verbe méconnu. Euskara eta hizkuntz tipologia. Basque syntax and universal grammar. How reliable and comprehensive is the DGV? Local nouns in standard Basque. Familiarity or solidarity: the pronoun 'hi' in Basque....

Download or read book Towards a History of the Basque Language written by José Ignacio Hualde and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions related to the origin and history of the Basque language spark considerable interest, since it is the only surviving pre-Indo-European language in western Europe. However, until now, there was no readily available source in English providing answers to these questions or giving an overview of past and current research in this area. This book is intended to partly fill this void.The book contains both state-of-the-art papers which summarize our knowledge about particular areas of Basque historical linguistics, and articles presenting new hypotheses and points of view based on hard evidence and careful analysis.All contributors to this volume have demonstrated expertise in the topic within Basque historical linguistics that their chapter addresses. Two classical articles by the late Luis Michelena are included in English translation. In addition, the book includes studies on diachronic phonology, morphology and syntax. The relation of Basque to other languages is also investigated in a couple of chapters.

Download or read book Words of the True Peoples Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos written by Carlos Montemayor and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the larger, ongoing movement throughout Latin America to reclaim non-Hispanic cultural heritages and identities, indigenous writers in Mexico are reappropriating the written word in their ancestral tongues and in Spanish. As a result, the long-marginalized, innermost feelings, needs, and worldviews of Mexico's ten to twenty million indigenous peoples are now being widely revealed to the Western societies with which these peoples coexist. To contribute to this process and serve as a bridge of intercultural communication and understanding, this groundbreaking, three-volume anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages: Nahuatl, Maya, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Tabasco Chontal, Purepecha, Sierra Zapoteco, Isthmus Zapoteco, Mazateco, Ñahñu, Totonaco, and Huichol. Volume 1 contains narratives and essays by Mexican indigenous writers. Their texts appear first in their native language, followed by English and Spanish translations. Frischmann and Montemayor have abundantly annotated the English, Spanish, and indigenous-language texts and added glossaries and essays that trace the development of indigenous texts, literacy, and writing. These supporting materials make the anthology especially accessible and interesting for nonspecialist readers seeking a greater understanding of Mexico's indigenous peoples. The other volumes of this work will be Volume 2: Poetry/Poesía and Volume 3: Theater/Teatro.

Download or read book Journal of Basque Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Words of the True Peoples Palabras de Los Seres Verdaderos Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Indigenous Language Writers Antolog a de Escritores Actuales en Lenguas Ind genas de M xico written by Carlos Montemayor and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages: Nahuatl, Maya, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Tojolabal, Tabasco Chontal, Purepecha, Sierra Zapoteco, Isthmus Zapoteco, Mazateco, Ñahñu, Totonaco, and Huichol. Volume 1 contains narratives and essays by Mexican indigenous writers. Their texts appear first in their native language, followed by English and Spanish translations.

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Download or read book Studia Indogermanica Et Palaeohispanica in Honorem A Tovar Et L Michelena written by Antonio Tovar and published by Universidad de Salamanca. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Basque written by R. L. Trask and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basque is the sole survivor of the very ancient languages of Western Europe. This book, written by an internationally renowned specialist in Basque, provides a comprehensive survey of all that is known about the prehistory of the language, including pronunciation, the grammar and the vocabulary. It also provides a long critical evaluation of the search for its relatives, as well as a thumbnail sketch of the language, a summary of its typological features, an external history and an extensive bibliography.

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Download or read book Comparative Archaeologies written by Ludomir R Lozny and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology, as with all of the social sciences, has always been characterized by competing theoretical propositions based on diverse bodies of locally acquired data. In order to fulfill local, regional expectations, different goals have been assigned to the practitioners of Archaeology in different regions. These goals might be entrenched in local politics, or social expectations behind cultural heritage research. This comprehensive book explores regional archaeologies from a sociological perspective—to identify and explain regional differences in archaeological practice, as well as their existing similarities. This work covers not only the currently-dominant Anglo-American archaeological paradigm, but also Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa, all of which have developed their own unique archaeological traditions. The contributions in this work cover these "alternative archaeologies," in the context of their own geographical, political, and socio-economic settings, as well as the context of the currently accepted mainstream approaches.

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