دانلود کتاب Language Evolution - Contact, Competition and Change
by Salikoko S. Mufwene
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عنوان فارسی: زبان تکامل - تماس با ما رقابت و تغییر |
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This book examines the processes by which languages change, from the macroecological perspective of competition and natural selection. In a series of chapters, Salikoko Mufwene examines such themes as:
- natural selection in language
- the actuation question and the invisible hand that drives evolution
- multilingualism and language contact
- language birth and language death
- the emergence of Creoles and Pidgins
- the varying impacts of colonization and globalization on language vitality
This comprehensive examination of the organic evolution of language will be essential reading for graduate and senior undergraduate students, and for researchers on the social dynamics of language variation and change, language vitality and death, and even the origins of linguistic diversity.