Languages and Linguistics: History of Languages

"The book critically examines the politics and ethics of English as dominant global language today, while glimpsing into the future."

"... this book examines the history of approaches to these north american indigenous languages through the lens of some of their most prominent properties."

" it is organized chronologically and offers a banquet of letters, poems, autobiographical reflections, op-eds, dictionary entries, stories, songs, legislative documents, and other evidence of verbal mutation. It addresses Ebonics, and Yinglish, Spanglish, and other linguistic concoctions, including sci-fi inventions."

"This book applies recent theoretical insights to trace the development of Castilian and Latin American Spanish from the Middle Ages onwards, through processes of repeated dialect mixing both within the Iberian Peninsula and in the New World. "

"This second edition of Steven Roger Fischer's fascinating book charts the history of communication from a time before human language was conceived of to the media explosion of the present day. Fischer begins by describing the modes of communication used by whales, birds, insects, and nonhuman primates, suggesting these are the first contexts in which the concept of "language" might be applied."

",,, investigates the evolution of the English language, examining how the language continues to adapt even today, as English continues to find new speakers and new uses."