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Whistled Languages A Worldwide Inquiry on Human Whistled Speech
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MEYER, Julien

The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author’s unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience. The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms of languages are also explored, including the role of environmental constraints in the emergence of whistled speech, their phonetic and phonol…

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978-3-662-45837-2
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A History of African Motherhood The Case of Uganda, 700–1900
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Rhiannon Stephens,

This history of African motherhood over the longue durée demonstrates that it was, ideologically and practically, central to social, economic, cultural and political life. The book explores how people in the North Nyanzan societies of Uganda used an ideology of motherhood to shape their communities. More than biology, motherhood created essential social and political connections that cut acros…

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9781139344333
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African Studies
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Language and Belonging Local Categories and Practices in a Guatemalan Highla…
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RITA, Vallentin

In this book, the author introduces belonging from a sociolinguistic perspective as a concept that is accomplished in interaction. Belonging can be expressed linguistically in social, spatial and temporal categories – indexing rootedness, groupness and cohesion. It can also be captured through shared linguistic practices within a group, e.g. collectively shared narrative practices. Using conv…

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Whistled Languages A Worldwide Inquiry on Human Whistled Speech
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MEYER, Julien

The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author’s unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience. The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms of languages are also explored, including the role of environmental constraints in the emergence of whistled speech, their phonetic and phonol…

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978-3-662-45837-2
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Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China: A Linguistic Ethnogr…
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Sihua Liang

These in-depth case studies provide novel insights in to the fast-changing language situation in multilingual China, and how it changes the meanings of language identity and language learning. This linguistic ethnographic study of language attitudes and identities in contemporary China in the era of multilingualism provides a comprehensive and critical review of the state of the art in the fiel…

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978-3-319-12619-7
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