Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages

Author:   Mark Abley
Publisher:   Harper Paperbacks
ISBN:  

9780618565832


Pages:   322
Publication Date:   04 April 2005
Format:   Paperback
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Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages


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In Spoken Here, Mark Abley takes us on a world tour, from the Arctic Circle to Oklahoma to Australia, in a fervent quest to document some of the world's most endangered languages. Abley delves deep into why some languages are fading into oblivion, while some endangered languages continue to thrive. His mission in Spoken Here is urgent: Of the six thousand languages spoken in the world today, only six hundred may survive into the next century. Abley visits the exotic and frequently remote locales that are home to fading languages and constructs engaging and entertaining portraits of some of the last living speakers of these tongues. Throughout this exhilarating travelogue, he points out that the same forces that put biological species at risk--development, globalization, loss of habitat--are also threatening human languages, and with them, something very basic about their speakers' cultures.

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Author:   Mark Abley
Publisher:   Harper Paperbacks
Imprint:   Harper Paperbacks
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.422kg
ISBN:  

9780618565832


ISBN 10:   0618565833
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   04 April 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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This generous, sorrow-tinged book is an informative and eloquent reminder of a richness that may not exist much longer. Publishers Weekly A humanistic approach to linguistics and a scintillating read. Kirkus Reviews Weaving its way with grace and lucidity through a tangle of political, economic and technologcial factors, Spoken Here is a must for anyone concerned with the survival of Earth's cultural eco-system. TimeOut New York Abley...does his research and writes with the passion and understated eloquence of a concerned citizen of the world... The San Francisco Chronicle --


Gracefully written, funny, and frequently heartbreaking.


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Mark Abley, an award-winning journalist, writes for the Montreal Gazette, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. He speaks English, French, and a little Welsh. His previous book, Spoken Here, was named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and Discover magazine. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 for work on language change and the future.

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