The Resource Lingo : around Europe in sixty languages, Gaston Dorren ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson, and Alison Edwards (translation)
Lingo : around Europe in sixty languages, Gaston Dorren ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson, and Alison Edwards (translation)
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The item Lingo : around Europe in sixty languages, Gaston Dorren ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson, and Alison Edwards (translation) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Yuma County Library District.
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- Summary
- "Spins the reader on a whirlwind tour of sixty European languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and differences ... [and taking] us into today's remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word 'you' in conversation"--Amazon.com
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 303 pages
- Note
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- Originally published: London : Profile Books, 2014
- Based on the author's Taaltoerisme : feiten en verhalen over 53 Europese talen
- Contents
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- What Europeans speak
- Next of tongue : languages and their families
- Past perfect discontinuous : languages and their history
- War and peace : languages and politics
- Werds, wird, wurds ... : written and spoken
- Nuts and bolts : languages and their vocabulary
- Talking by the talk : languages and their grammar
- Intensive care : languages on the brink and beyond
- Movers and shakers : linguists who left their mark
- Warts and all : linguistic portrait studies
- Isbn
- 9780802124074
- Label
- Lingo : around Europe in sixty languages
- Title
- Lingo
- Title remainder
- around Europe in sixty languages
- Statement of responsibility
- Gaston Dorren ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson, and Alison Edwards (translation)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Spins the reader on a whirlwind tour of sixty European languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and differences ... [and taking] us into today's remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word 'you' in conversation"--Amazon.com
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dorren, Gaston
- Dewey number
- 306.44094
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1977-
- 1983-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Dorren, Gaston
- Audring, Jenny
- Watson, Frauke
- Edwards, Alison
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Language and culture
- Europe
- Philology
- Language and languages
- Label
- Lingo : around Europe in sixty languages, Gaston Dorren ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson, and Alison Edwards (translation)
- Note
-
- Originally published: London : Profile Books, 2014
- Based on the author's Taaltoerisme : feiten en verhalen over 53 Europese talen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-286) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- Contents
- What Europeans speak -- Next of tongue : languages and their families -- Past perfect discontinuous : languages and their history -- War and peace : languages and politics -- Werds, wird, wurds ... : written and spoken -- Nuts and bolts : languages and their vocabulary -- Talking by the talk : languages and their grammar -- Intensive care : languages on the brink and beyond -- Movers and shakers : linguists who left their mark -- Warts and all : linguistic portrait studies
- Control code
- ocn903763393
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 303 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802124074
- Isbn Type
- :
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)903763393
- Label
- Lingo : around Europe in sixty languages, Gaston Dorren ; with contributions by Jenny Audring, Frauke Watson, and Alison Edwards (translation)
- Note
-
- Originally published: London : Profile Books, 2014
- Based on the author's Taaltoerisme : feiten en verhalen over 53 Europese talen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-286) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- What Europeans speak -- Next of tongue : languages and their families -- Past perfect discontinuous : languages and their history -- War and peace : languages and politics -- Werds, wird, wurds ... : written and spoken -- Nuts and bolts : languages and their vocabulary -- Talking by the talk : languages and their grammar -- Intensive care : languages on the brink and beyond -- Movers and shakers : linguists who left their mark -- Warts and all : linguistic portrait studies
- Control code
- ocn903763393
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 303 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802124074
- Isbn Type
- :
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)903763393
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