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Yiddish was born in the eleventh century and has been the living language of the Jewish people ever since. Ten million people speak Yiddish (a low estimate), and the tongue is so …

The mystery of what language Etruscan originated from is solved in the translation of five texts. Etruscan is revealed to be an early Gothic language, a partial forerunner of …

Scandinavians are cooler, sexier and more stylish than the rest of us. They have a higher standard of living, greater economic opportunity and equality, the world’s best …

The language used by American military personnel can be intense and confrontational, yet the relationship between language and military violence is rarely examined in depth. This …

What is a dialect? How are dialects represented in film and literature? How can they be analysed? In the first textbook to cover dialect representation in both film and literature, …

This Element introduces Kongish as a translingual and multimodal urban dialect emerging in Hong Kong in recent years and still in the making. Through the lens of translanguaging …

This publication constitutes a selection of papers presented at the 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Sounds 2010, held in Poznan, …

Die Entstehung der neuhochdeutschen Schriftsprache stellt von Beginn der Sprachgeschichtsforschung an eine ihrer zentralen Fragen dar. Standen lange Zeit diejenigen historischen …

As the title suggests, this collection explores some of the many facets of the language question as experienced by Africans today. This language question in Africa involves, in one …

This book, a collection of papers on various aspects of Middle English, is the only work of the kind ever published in the history of English studies. Ranging from phonology to …

Why do people speak the way they do? And why does the way they speak make so much difference? This collection of essays on language variation offers fascinating answers to these …