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Speak not : empire, identity and the politics of language / James Griffiths.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griffiths, James T. (James Tomos), 1988- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linguistic minorities.
- Language attrition--Prevention.
- Language attrition.
- Language revival.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Zed Books, 2021.
- Summary:
- As we stand at the brink of a terminal decline in the world's languages, and the rise of the hegemonic 'super-tongue', this is a personal and engaging account of how we can stop the race towards the extinction of linguistic diversity.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One Welsh
- 1 Blue Books
- 2 Fire and fury
- 3 Nitroglycerine
- 4 Bilingual nation
- Interlude: Afri-can't
- Part Two Hawaiian
- 5 The princess who was promised
- 6 Sandwiched islands
- 7 I Mua Kamehameha
- 8 Ke Ea Hawai'i
- 9 Road closed due to desecration
- Interlude: The old, new tongue
- Part Three Cantonese
- 10 Dialectics
- 11 A Chinese alphabet
- 12 Common tongue
- 13 'Cantonese gives you nasal cancer'
- 14 Sounds of separatism
- 15 Language plateau
- Epilogue
- Author's Note
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781786999665
- 1786999668
- OCLC:
- 1241539653
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