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Near Fine. 0816521395. B & W; 6.125 X 1.1 X 9.25 inches; xix, 433 pages; Soft cover has greyish spine with black lettering. Light rubbing and bumping to covers. Bottom corners of some pages bumped. Pages are clean and tight. Some b/w maps, tables, illustrations. 'This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. ' Appendices; bibliography; index.
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