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This book addresses the changing contemporary language worlds in
three major contexts. It first discusses how the language landscape
maps of cities are changing as a result of increased migration,
globalization and global media. These features are evident in place
names and place name changes as well as the densities and
frequencies of language spoken and used in texts. The second
section discusses how the state itself is responding to both
indigenous and heritage groups desiring to be included and
represented in the state's political landscapes and also
expressions of art and culture. In the third section, the authors
address a number of cutting-edge theses that are emerging in the
linguistic geography and political words. These include the
importance of gender, anthropogenetic discourse, the preservation
of endangered languages and challenges to a state's official
language policy. Through including authors from nine different
countries, who are writing about issues in twelve countries and
their overlapping interests in language mapping, language usage and
policy and visual representations, this book provides inspiring
research into future topics at local, national, regional and
international scales.
This study is the first of its kind to offer a comprehensive
analysis of authentic everyday emotions as opposed to the simulated
or stylized variety. Extensive material distinctive for its
combination of unforced language behaviour, extremely good
recording quality, and a high frequency of recurrent interaction
sequences makes it possible to propose an empirically well-founded
and at the same time surprisingly simple model of German prosody.
On this basis, the study identifies four fundamental emotional
dimensions directly connected with prosodic units and acoustic
parameters.
This reference work delivers an interdisciplinary, applied spatial
and geographical approach to the study of languages and
linguistics. This work includes chapters and sections related to
language origins, diffusion, conflicts, policies,
education/instruction, representation, technology, regions, and
mapping. Also addressed is the mapping of languages and linguistic
diversity, on language in the context of politics, on the relevance
of language to cultural identity, on language minorities and
endangered languages, and also on language and the arts and
non-human language and communication. This reference work looks at
the subject matter and contributors to the disciplines and programs
in the social sciences and humanities, and the dearth of materials
on languages and linguistics. The topics covered are not only
discipline-centered, but in the cutting-edge fields that intersect
several disciplines and also cut across the social sciences and
humanities. These include gender studies, sustainability and
development, technology and social media impacts, law and human
rights, climate change, public health and epidemiology,
architecture, religion, visual representation and mapping. These
new and emerging research directions and other intersecting fields
are not traditionally discipline-bounded, but cut across numerous
fields. The volumes will appeal to those within existing fields and
disciplines and those working the intersections at local, regional
and global scales.
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