TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dorren,Gaston
AU  - Dorren,Gaston
AU  - Audring,Jenny
AU  - Watson,Frauke
AU  - Edwards,Alison
TI  - Lingo: around Europe in sixty languages 
SN  - 9780802124074
AV  - P380 .D6713 2015
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Atlantic Monthly Press
KW  - Language and culture
KW  - Europe
KW  - Philology
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Variation
KW  - Languages
N1  - Originally published: London : Profile Books, 2014; Based on the author's Taaltoerisme : feiten en verhalen over 53 Europese talen; Map on lining paper; Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-286) and index; What Europeans speak -- Next of tongue : languages and their families -- Past perfect discontinuous : languages and their history -- War and peace : languages and politics -- Werds, wird, wurds ... : written and spoken -- Nuts and bolts : languages and their vocabulary -- Talking by the talk : languages and their grammar -- Intensive care : languages on the brink and beyond -- Movers and shakers : linguists who left their mark -- Warts and all : linguistic portrait studies
N2  - "Spins the reader on a whirlwind tour of sixty European languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and differences ... [and taking] us into today's remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word 'you' in conversation"--Amazon.com
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