Languages and Their Status
Shopen, Timothy (EDT)
ISBN 10: 0812212495 ISBN 13: 9780812212495
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987
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An introduction both to languages themselves and to their social role, Languages and Their Status gives insight into the meaning, value, and function of language within culture and into the ways language behavior varies and changes. It examines the part languages play in the evolution and structure of communities and, in turn, the ways languages are shaped by the social forces impinging on their speakers.
Each chapter discusses what it means to be a speaker of a particular language and puts that language in context among the languages of the world.
This volume is complemented by a second volume entitled Languages and Their Speakers, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
About the Author: Edited by Timothy Shopen
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Title: Languages and Their Status
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: As New