Language Adaptation
by Edited by Florian CoulmasEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2009-04-02
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
Language Adaptation examines the process by which a speech community is forced to adopt an active role in making its language suitable for changing functional requirements. This wide-ranging collection of essays looks at this phenomenon from a variety of historical and synchronic perspectives, and brings together the work of a number of leading scholars in the field. Several different languages are examined at different stages of their history, including Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Kiswahili, German and Hindi. This well-informed book is a significant contribution to the existing literature on language planning, and is the first to use one theoretical concept to deal with the relationship between natural and deliberate language change. It shows that language adaptation is a particular aspect of language change, and thus establishes a link between the social and the historical study of language. It will appeal to graduate students and professionals in linguistics and the social sciences, as well as to practitioners of language planning.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Language adaptation | |
| Terminology development in the revival of a language: the case of contemporary Hebrew | |
| Communicating in Arabic: problems and prospects | |
| An assessment of the development and modernization of the Kiswahili language in Tanzania | |
| Aspects of modernization in Indian languages | |
| Adaptation processes in Chinese: word formation | |
| The development of Japanese society and the modernization of Japanese during the Meiji restoration | |
| Lexical aspects of the modernization of Japanese | |
| The transition from Latin to German in the natural sciences and its consequences | |
| Greek and Latin as a permanent source of scientific terminology: the German case | |
| Internationalisms: identical vocabularies in European languages | |
| International terminology | |
| Democracy and the crisis of normative linguistics | |
| Index | |
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