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Languages are constantly changing, shaped by migration, imperialism, and globalisation that blur boundaries between them. This Bloomsbury examination explores how new words enter English annually through borrowing and coinage, whilst some languages like French and Finnish maintain academies to resist foreign influence. Yet languages function as species-like constructs, evolving naturally over time and producing new forms such as creoles whilst driving others toward extinction. The book investigates the processes by which languages transform, revealing how contact between communities, competitive pressures, and social change fundamentally reshape linguistic systems across generations and geographical regions.

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Bloomsbury's comprehensive analysis of how migration and imperialism drive language change and evolution.

Explores the natural processes by which languages develop new words, borrow from other languages, and adapt over time.

Examines the emergence of creoles and other new languages resulting from contact between different linguistic communities.

Discusses how globalisation has blurred language boundaries and influenced linguistic diversity and extinction patterns.

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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0826493696
Category: Books > Subjects > Language Study & Reference
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 31 March 2008
Listed Since: 10 July 2007

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