Afghan Languages in a Larger Context of Central and South Asia

The pioneer Western investigator of the languages of Afghanistan, Georg Morgenstierne, who began his work in 1924, called Afghanistan linguistically “one of the most interesting countries on earth.” Linguistic work by local scholars began in the following generation. When one of us [Spooner] first met Dr. A. G. Ravan Farhadi (the author of Le Persan Parlé en Afghanistan, 1953) in Kabul in 1972, he announced that in the latest count the number of languages known in Afghanistan had reached 48

A conversation analysis of application turn taking mechanism

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Linguistic culture and language policy

Linguistic Culture and Language Policy expose language policy as culture-specific, helping us to understand why language politics evolve the way they do, why they work, or not and how people's lives are effected by them. These issues will be of specific interest to linguists specialising in multilingual / multicultural societies, bilingual educationalists, curriculum planners and teachers.x, 341 p.: ill.; 25 cm