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Language and culture -- Europe.
Philology.
Language and languages -- Variation.
Europe -- Languages.
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Lingo : around Europ...
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Lingo : around
Europe
in sixty languages / Gaston Dorren ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson, and Alison Edwards (translation).
by
Dorren, Gaston author.
Subjects
Language
and
culture
--
Europe
.
Philology.
Language
and languages
--
Variation.
Europe
--
Languages.
Publisher Info:
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2015]
©2015
Description:
303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
RDA Types:
text
unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9780802124074 :
0802124070 :
Contents:
What Europeans speak
--
Next of tongue : languages and their families
--
Past perfect discontinuous : languages and their history
--
War and peace : languages and politics
--
Werds, wird, wurds ... : written and spoken
--
Nuts and bolts : languages and their vocabulary
--
Talking by the talk : languages and their grammar
--
Intensive care : languages on the brink and beyond
--
Movers and shakers : linguists who left their mark
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Warts and all : linguistic portrait studies.
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"Spins the reader on a whirlwind tour of sixty European languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and differences ... [and taking] us into today's remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose
language
was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word 'you' in conversation"--Amazon.com.
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