LINGUIST List 14.1726

Wed Jun 18 2003

Books: Sociolinguistics, Latin: Adams

Editor for this issue: Marisa Ferrara <marisalinguistlist.org>

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1. jreid, Bilingualism and the Latin Language: Adams

Title: Bilingualism and the Latin Language
			
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 
 http://www.cup.org		 
			
Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/classics
 
Author: J.N. Adams, University of Oxford 

Hardback: ISBN: 0521817714, Pages: 864, Price: 140.00
Comment: 1 graph
			
Abstract:

This book deals systematically with communication problems in the
Roman world where numerous languages apart from Latin and Greek were
spoken. How did the Romans communicate with their subjects in the
remoter parts of the Empire? What linguistic policies did they
pursue? Differing forms of bilingualism developed, which had a
significant effect on the way the Romans and their subjects thought,
spoke and wrote. A wide range of cultural, historical and linguistic
questions concerning the varying developments in bilingualism are
addressed.

Contents:
Introduction; 1. Languages in contact with Latin; 2. Code-switching;
3. Bilingualism, linguistic diversity and language change; 4. Latin in
Egypt; 5. Bilingualism at Delos; 6. Bilingualism at La Graufesenque;
7. The Latin of a learner (P. Amh. II 26): a case study; 8. Some
concluding remarks.

Lingfield(s): Sociolinguistics
			 
Subject Language(s): Latin (Language Code: LTN)

Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)


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