Words Like Birds: Sakha Language Discourses and Practices in the City Contributor(s): Ferguson, Jenanne (Author) |
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ISBN: 1496208889 ISBN-13: 9781496208880 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $61.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Social Science | Indigenous Studies - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Historical & Comparative |
Dewey: 306.442 |
LCCN: 2018028397 |
Series: Borderlands and Transcultural Studies |
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.43 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: What does it mean to speak Sakha in the city? Words like Birds, a linguistic ethnography of Sakha discourses and practices in urban far eastern Russia, examines the factors that have aided speakers in maintaining--and adapting--their minority language over the course of four hundred years of contact with Russian speakers and the federal power apparatus. |