The Five-Minute Linguist
Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-908049-49-0 (ISBN)
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The Five-Minute Linguist has been a popular introduction to the subject of language because it is succinct, clear, accurate, -- and fun to read. Now in its second edition, updated and expanded, the book has been warmly received by readers across the globe because it offers quick and reliable answers to questions about language that most of us have, such as: How many languages are there? What was the first language? What causes foreign accents? Are dialects dying? The book is the work of experts, authoritative and full of facts, but not technical or aimed at an audience of scholars. It is used by beginning students of linguistics and anthropology, and has broad appeal for general readers, people who read for enjoyment as well as knowledge. It has a conversational style that feels more like a series of fireside chats than a college textbook, because it started life as a series of five-minute radio broadcasts. Its chapters are short, suitable for browsing or reading on the run. But although it is intentionally light in tone, the book is full of up-to-date information, written by a cross-section of leading linguists in the U.S. and abroad.
The second edition of the book was produced under the sponsorship of the Linguistic Society of America and the (U.S.) National Museum of Language.
E. M. Rickerson is Director Emeritus of the award-winning language program at the College of Charleston (S.C.). In 2005 Dr. Rickerson created a radio series on languages which was broadcast on public and college radio stations -- and on which The Five-Minute Linguist was based Barry Hilton is a freelance writer/editor and independent scholar living in Maine. He was a member of the editorial board that reviewed the radio scripts on which The Five-Minute Linguist was based.
Foreword Bret Lovejoy, Executive Director, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Introduction E.M. "Rick" Rickerson and Barry Hilton 1Why learn about language? Robert Rodman 2You're a linguist? How many languages do you speak? Paul Chapin 3How many languages are there in the world? M. Paul Lewis 4What's the difference between dialects and languages? G. Tucker Childs 5What was the original language? Barry Hilton 6Do all languages come from the same source? Allan Bomhard 7What language did Adam and Eve speak? E.M. "Rick" Rickerson 8Do languages have to change? John McWhorter 9What are lingua francas? Nicholas Ostler 10Are pidgins and Creoles real languages? John Lipski 11How many kinds of writing systems are there? Peter Daniels 12Where did writing come from? Peter Daniels 13Where does grammar come from? Joan Bybee 14Do all languages have the same grammar? Mark Baker 15How do babies learn their mother tongue? Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathryn Hirsch-Pasek 16Do animals use language? Donna Jo Napoli 17How does the brain cope with multiple languages? Henk Haarmann 18Does our language influence the way we think? Geoffrey Pullum 19What's the right way to put words together? Dennis Preston 20Is British English the best English? Orin Hargraves 21Why do people fight over language? Paul Garrett 22What does it mean to be bilingual? Dora Johnson 23How many languages can a person learn? Richard Hudson 24What is "speaking in tongues"? Walt Wolfram 25What happens if you are raised without language? Susan Curtiss 26Do deaf people everywhere use the same sign language? Leila Monaghan 27Why do languages die? Christopher Moseley 28Can a threatened language be saved? Akira Yamamoto et al. 29Why do American southerners talk that way? Walt Wolfram 30What causes foreign accents? Steven Weinberger 31How are the sounds of language made? Peter Ladefoged 32Can monolingualism be cured? Katherine Sprang 33What does it take to learn a language well? Nina Garrett 34How has our thinking about language learning changed through the years? June Phillips 35Why study languages abroad? Sheri Spaine Long 36Is elementary school too early to teach foreign languages? Gladys Lipton 37Can computers teach languages faster and better? Sue E.K. Otto 38What's the language of the United States? David Goldberg 39Is there a language crisis in the U.S.? Catherine Ingold 40What's the future of Spanish in the U.S.? Maria Carreira 41What is Cajun and where did it come from? Robyn Holman 42Did German almost become the language of the U.S.? Nancy Nenno 43What's Gullah? Elizabeth Martinez-Gibson 44Are U.S. dialects dying? Walt Wolfram 45Can you make a living loving languages? Frederick H. Jackson 46How are dictionaries made? Erin McKean 47Why do we need translators if we have dictionaries? Kevin Hendzel 48How good is machine translation? David Savignac 49Can you use language to solve crimes? Robert Rodman 50How can you keep languages in a museum? Amelia Murdoch 51Where did English come from? John Algeo 52How many Native American languages are there? Marianne Mithun 53Is Latin really dead? Frank Morris 54Who speaks Italian? Dennis Looney 55How different are Portuguese and Spanish? Ana Carvalho 56Should we be studying Russian? Benjamin Rifkin 57What's exciting about Icelandic? Pardee Lowe 58What's the difference between Hebrew and Yiddish? Neil G. Jacobs 59Do all Arabs speak the same language? Jerry Lampe 60Is Swahili the language of Africa? Donald Osborn 61Do you have to be a masochist to study Chinese? Barry Hilton 62Is studying Japanese worth the effort? Blaine Erickson 63What's the language of India? Vijay Gambhir 64Whatever happened to Esperanto? Arika Okrent and E.M. "Rick" Rickerson 65Does anybody here speak Klingon? Christopher Moseley
| Sprache | englisch |
|---|---|
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
| ISBN-10 | 1-908049-49-9 / 1908049499 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-908049-49-0 / 9781908049490 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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