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Celebrating Indigenous Voice
Every society thrives on stories, legends and myths. This volume explores the linguistic devices employed in the astoundingly rich narrative traditions in the tropical hot-spots of linguistic and cultural diversity, and the ways in which cultural changes and new means of communication affect narrative genres and structures. It focusses on linguistic and cultural facets of the narratives in the areas of linguistic diversity across the tropics and surrounding areas — New Guinea, Northern Australia, Siberia, and also the Tibeto-Burman region. The introduction brings together the recurrent themes in the grammar and the substance of the narratives. The twelve contributions to the volume address...
Rethinking Universals
Universals of language have been studied extensively for the last four decades, allowing fundamental insight into the principles and general properties of human language. Only incidentally have researchers looked at the other end of the scale. And even when they did, they mostly just noted peculiar facts as ''quirks'' or ''unusual behavior'', without making too much of an effort at explaining them beyond calling them ''exceptions'' to various rules or generalizations. Rarissima and rara, features and properties found only in one or very few languages, tell us as much about the capacities and limits of human language(s) as do universals. Explaining the existence of such rare phenomena on the one hand, and the fact of their rareness or uniqueness on the other, is a reasonable and interesting challenge to any theory of how human language works. The present volume for the first time compiles selected papers on the study of rare linguistic features from various fields of linguistics and from a wide range of languages.
The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
Language contact - the linguistic and social outcomes of two or more languages coming into contact with each other - starts with the emergence of multilingual populations. Multilingualism involving plurilingualism can have various consequences beyond borrowing, interference, and code-mixing and -switching, including the emergence of lingua francas and new language varieties, as well as language endangerment and loss. Bringing together contributions from an international team of scholars, this Handbook - the second in a two-volume set - engages the reader with the manifold aspects of multilingualism and provides state-of-the-art research on the impact of population structure on language contact. It begins with an introduction that presents the history of the scholarship on the subject matter. The chapters then cover various processes and theoretical issues associated with multilingualism embedded in specific population structures worldwide as well as their outcomes. It is essential reading for anybody interested in how people behave linguistically in multilingual or multilectal settings.
Language Dispersal, Diversification, and Contact
This book addresses the complex question of how and why languages have spread across the globe. International experts in the field explore this issue using new analytical research techniques and drawing on large databases, with a focus on the language and population histories of Island Southeast Asia/Oceania, Africa, and South America.
Línguas cruzadas, histórias que se mesclam
Neste livro, o leitor acompanha o esforço empreendido pela autora no resgate e preservação da língua chiquitano no Brasil, e suas ações para que o Chiquitano não fique restrito à memória dos anciões, mas que volte a ser utilizado por sua comunidade. Pois resgatar uma língua é mais que registrar sua fonética e ortografia, é trazer de volta à vida a identidade e visão de mundo de seu povo.
The Indigenous Languages of the Americas
The Indigenous Languages of the Americas is a comprehensive assessment of what is known about their history and classification. It identifies gaps in knowledge and resolves controversial issues while making new contributions of its own. The book deals with the major themes involving these languages: classification and history of the Indigenous languages of the Americas; issues involving language names; origins of the languages of the New World; unclassified and spurious languages; hypotheses of distant linguistic relationships; linguistic areas; contact languages (pidgins, lingua francas, mixed languages); and loanwords and neologisms.
R E T E X T U A L I Z A Ç Ã O
PREFÁCIO Márcia Dias dos Santos Universidade Federal de Rondônia – UNIR Campus Guajará-Mirim A presente edição da obra Retextualização, nesta 5ª edição abordará os aspectos educativos, artístico-literários e descoloniais e conta com valiosos sete artigos e um ensaio escritos por pesquisadores e pesquisadoras de várias regiões do Brasil. As pesquisadoras Antonia Cristina Valentim da Luz (UFMT) e Deise Leite Bitencourt Friedrich (IFRS), no capítulo 1, intitulado PROCESSOS DE RETEXTUALIZAÇÃO PRESENTES NO SEMINÁRIO ACADÊMICO abrem este livro e trazem reflexões e resultados de uma pesquisa realizada em quatro cursos de Bacharelado da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso/cam...
Patrimônio, Culinária, Arte e Cultura 2
Prezados leitores e pesquisadores, Tenho o prazer de apresentar o segundo volume do livro “Patrimônio, culinária, arte e cultura”, que reúne uma seleção de temas que buscam destacar a diversidade cultural presente em nosso país e sua relação com o patrimônio, a culinária e a arte. O primeiro capítulo deste volume aborda a história das mulheres e a tradição Rosariana em Trindade-GO, destacando o importante papel dessas mulheres na preservação das tradições culturais em sua comunidade. No segundo capítulo, analisamos as narrativas cosmológicas dos povos Haliti (Paresi) e Boe (Bororo) sobre a origem, oferecendo uma compreensão mais aprofundada das crenças e mitos desse...
The Handbook of Language Contact
The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies Language contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguistic research that studies how language changes when speakers of different languages interact. Accessibly structured into three sections, The Handbook of Language Contact explores the role of contact studies within the field of linguistics, the value of contact studies for language change research, and the relevance of language contact for sociolinguistics. This authoritative volume presents original findings and fresh research directions from an international team of prominent experts. Thi...
