Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Historical & Comparative

In an increasingly multicultural world, the relationship between language and identity remains a complicated and often fraught subject for most societies. The growing political salience of questions relating to language is evident not only in the expanded implementation of new policies and legislation, but also in heated public debates about national unity, collective identities, and the rights of linguistic minorities. By taking a comprehensive approach that considers both the inclusive and exclusive dimensions of linguistic identity across Europe and North America, the studies assembled...

Worterbucher sind eine spannende Lekture, wenn man sie im Kontext von Sprach- und Theoriegeschichte, Sozial- und Bildungsgeschichte liest. Hier wird eine am modernen Kulturbegriff ausgerichtete Geschichte der Worterbucher des deutschen Sprachraums erzahlt, in der die Positionen ihrer Verfasser und Benutzer beschrieben, dazu wissenschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Zusammenhange beleuchtet werden.Nach einer Einfuhrung in die Grundbegriffe und das allgemeine Handwerkszeug der Lexikografinnen und Lexikografen folgt eine chronologische Darstellung vom 8. bis 20. Jahrhundert. In weiteren...

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Grober in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages.

The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and...

Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL) provides the platform for a new research program which is currently taking shape in the realm of linguistics, viz. "Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics." This new sub-discipline of linguistics is inspired by the work carried out within the framework of Missionary Linguistics and by the recent discussion about language, linguistics and colonialism. The integration of these two perspectives in one approach makes "Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics" special.

KPL/CPL serves...

This book looks at language in unexpected places. Drawing on a diversity of materials and contexts, including farewell addresses to British workers in colonial India, letters written from parents to their children at home, a Cornish anthem sung in South Australia, a country fair in rural Australia, and a cricket match played in the middle of the 19th century in south India, this book explores many current concerns around language, mobility and place, including native speakers, generic forms, and language maintenance. Using a series of narrative accounts - from a journey to southern India...