Bibliograph

Lingo, around Europe in sixty languages, Gaston Dorren ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson, and Alison Edwards (translation)

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Lingo, around Europe in sixty languages, Gaston Dorren ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson, and Alison Edwards (translation)

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-286) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lingo

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

903763393

Responsibility statement

Gaston Dorren ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson, and Alison Edwards (translation)

Sub title

around Europe in sixty languages

Summary

"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

Table Of 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 -- Warts and all : linguistic portrait studies

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