[PDF] Lingua Franca In The Mediterranean eBook

Author : J. E. Wansborough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1136779655

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The subject of this study is the language of commerce and diplomacy during the period from 1500 BCE to 1500 CE. Based on texts of chancery provenance, its aim is the identification of a linguistic sub-system that effected and informed the major channel of international relations. The standard procedures of contact and exchange generated a format that facilitated inter-lingual transfer of concepts and terms. Lingua Franca refers to the several natural languages that served as vehicle in the transfer, but also to the format itself.

Author : Natalie Operstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1316518310

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By de-anonymizing the key text on Mediterranean Lingua Franca, the book opens unexpected new areas for linguistic and historical research.

Author : Juliane Besters-Dilger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 10,63 MB
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110338459

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Modern contact linguistics has primarily focused on contact between languages that are genetically unrelated and structurally distant. This compendium of articles looks instead at the effects of pre–existing structural congruency between the affected languages at the time of their initial contact, using the Romance and Slavic languages as examples. In contact of this kind, both genetic and typological similarities play a part.

Author : Christiane Meierkord
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521192285

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The global spread of English has resulted in contact with an enormous variety of different languages worldwide, leading to the creation of many new varieties of English. This book takes an original look at what happens when speakers of these different varieties interact with one another.

Author : Joanna Nolan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3030364569

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This book explores many of the unanswered questions surrounding the original and eponymous Lingua Franca, a language spoken by peoples across the Mediterranean and North Africa for nearly three centuries. Allowing people from different countries, classes and cultures to interact with one another for the purposes of trade, piracy, slavery and diplomacy - among many other domains - Lingua Franca was lexified by Romance languages, including Italian and its dialects, Spanish, French and Portuguese, with possible Turkish and Arabic influences as well. The potential unreliability of source accounts, the blurring of fact and fiction across documentary and dramatic sources, and the linguistic biases and plurilingual repertoire of many of Lingua Franca’s speakers all combine to make Lingua Franca an elusive topic for examination. The author draws upon previously unexplored documentary evidence, including correspondence from the era found in The National Archives at Kew, to shed light on the multilingual and plurilingual landscape that fostered Lingua Franca’s development and spread, and its influence on the written domain. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of colonial history, linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics and language contact.

Author : Bernd Kortmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110220261

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Open publicationThe Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The book supplies profiles of the language families of Europe, including the sign languages. It also discusses the areal typology, paying attention to the Standard Average European, Balkan, Baltic and Mediterranean convergence areas. Separate chapters deal with the old and new minority languages and with non-standard varieties. A major focus is language politics and policies, including discussions of the special status of English, the relation between language and the church, language and the school, and standardization. The history of European linguistics is another focus as is the history of multilingual European 'empires' and their dissolution. The volume is especially geared towards a graduate and advanced undergraduate readership. It has been designed such that it can be used, as a whole or in parts, as a textbook, the first of its kind, for graduate programmes with a focus on the linguistic (and linguistics) landscape of Europe.

Author : Nicos C. Sifakis
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 178892178X

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This book explores the interfaces of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) pedagogy. It presents the theoretical aspects of ELF, discusses issues and challenges that ELF raises for the EFL classroom, and demonstrates how EFL practitioners can make use of ELF theorizing for classroom instruction, teacher education, developing language learning materials, policymaking and testing and assessment. Accounts of innovative and practical pedagogical practices and researchers’ insights from diverse geographical, cultural and institutional contexts will inform and inspire EFL practitioners to reconsider their practices and adopt new techniques in order to meet their learners’ diverse communicative needs in international contexts.

Author : Yasemin Bayyurt
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Education and state
ISBN : 9783631681275

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This edited volume seeks ways to present a unifying picture of TESOL policies and practices from different contexts in the broader Mediterranean basin and beyond. The main topics are: English language education; English language teacher education and recruitment policy; English language testing policies and practices in different contexts.

Author : Nicholas Ostler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 36,10 MB
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0802717713

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Examines the rise and fall of English as the most widely spoken language in human history and discusses what language will overtake its dominance as English-speaking nations are challenged by the rising wealth of Brazil, Russia, India and China.