The voice of cultures in languages

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Description

The book addresses the challenges that culture poses both for linguistic theory and for translation. It also presents illustrative examples of languages spoken in different parts of the world in relation to their cultural backgrounds, and concludes with an overview of language change as part of broader cultural transformation. Together, the contributions in the volume form a picture of what is being lost from humanity’s cultural heritage through language extinction.

The world’s languages are much more than collections of arbitrary sound symbols that can be fully captured in grammars and dictionaries. (AI translation)

Publication Information

Idström, A. & Sosa, S. (2019) (eds.), Kielissä kulttuurien ääni, Tietolipas 228, Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society SKS [1st edition 2009].

  • ISSN: 0562-6120
  • ISBN: 978-952-222-129-2
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