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  • The Romani Gypsies

    by Yaron Matras ...
    A "rich, colorful account" of the origins, history, and culture of the Romani people (Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs)."Gypsies" have lived among Europeans since the Middle Ages. Yet Roms still seem exotic to Westerners, who often rely on fictional depictions for what they know, or think they know, about this much-misunderstood people. The Romani Gypsies challenges stereotypes that have long been ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Speech and the City

    Multilingualism, Decoloniality and the Civic University

    by Yaron Matras ...
    The Brexit debate has been accompanied by a rise in hostile attitudes to multilingualism. However, cities can provide an important counter-weight to political polarisation by forging civic identities that embrace diversity. In this timely book, Yaron Matras describes the emergence of a city language narrative that embraces and celebrates multilingualism and helps forge a civic identity. He ... Read more

    $102.49 USD

  • Language Contact

    by Yaron Matras ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Language contact occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence one another. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and adult bilingualism, this book combines his original research with an up-to-date introduction to key concepts, to provide a holistic, original theory of contact linguistics. Going beyond a descriptive outline of contact ... Read more

    $41.89 USD

  • Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish

    Edited by Yaron Matras, Geoffrey Haig, Ergin Öpengin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers the first comparative discussion of variation in selected areas of structure in the dialects of Kurdish. The contributions draw on data collected as part of the project on Structural and Typological Variation in Kurdish and stored in the Manchester Database of Kurdish Dialects online resource, as well as on additional data sources. The chapters address issues in lexicon, phonology ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics

    Edited by Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Romani is the first language, and family and community language, of upwards of 3-4 million people and possibly many more in Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Documentation and research on the language draws on a tradition of more than two centuries, yet it remains relatively unknown and often engulfed by myths. In recent decades there has been an upsurge of interest in the language including ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact

    Edited by Evangelia Adamou, Yaron Matras ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established field of investigation in its own right and featuring 26 chapters, this handbook brings together a broad range of approaches to contact linguistics, including:experimental and observational approaches and formal ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Open Borders, Unlocked Cultures

    Romanian Roma Migrants in Western Europe

    Edited by Yaron Matras, Daniele Leggio ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    The book examines some of the dilemmas surrounding Europe’s open borders, migrations, and identities through the prism of the Roma – Europe’s most dispersed and socially marginalised population. The volume challenges some of the myths surrounding the Roma as a ‘problem population’, and places the focus instead on the context of European policy and identity debates. It comes to the conclusion that ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    Responses to 7 October: Antisemitic Discourse

    by Anthony Julius, David Hirsh, Rosa Freedman, Howard Jacobson, Jeffrey Herf, Flora Cassen, Robin Douglas, Matthew Bolton, Alan Johnson, David Seymour, Jonas Hessenauer, Lukas Uwira, Torkel Brekke, Anna Zawadzka, Yaron Matras ...
    Narrated by Sarah Kants, Simon Schatzberger ...
    Series Audiobook 7 - Studies in Contemporary Antisemitism

    Unabridged

    5 hours 27 min

    One of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Antisemitic Discourse focuses on the ideology that motivated it and the antisemitism that shaped many responses to it.It examines the provenance of the Jew-hatred, from English history to Palestinian Islamism; from toxic 19th century ‘Jewish Question’ rhetoric to the perversion of the Trotskyist tradition that allowed parts of the left to ... Read more

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    Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars

    by John McWhorter ...
    Foreigners often say that English language is "easy." A language like Spanish is challenging in its variety of verb endings (the verb speak is conjugated hablo, hablas, hablamos), and gender for nouns, whereas English is more straight forward (I speak, you speak, we speak). But linguists generally swat down claims that certain languages are "easier" than others, since it is assumed all languages ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology

    Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization ... Read more

    $60.69 USD

  • The Mongolic Languages

    Edited by Juha Janhunen ...
    Series series Routledge Language Family Series
    Once the rulers of the largest land empire that has ever existed on earth, the historical Mongols of Chinggis Khan left a linguistic heritage which today survives in the form of more than a dozen different languages, collectively termed Mongolic. For general linguistic theory, the Mongolic languages offer interesting insights to problems of areal typology and structural change. An understanding of ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Language Contact

    Edited by Raymond Hickey ...
    The Handbook of Language Contact offers systematic coverage of the major issues in this field – ranging from the value of contact explanations in linguistics, to the impact of immigration, to dialectology – combining new research from a team of globally renowned scholars, with case studies of numerous languages.An authoritative reference work exploring the major issues in the field of language ... Read more

    $62.95 USD