A memoir of how the Amazigh people successfully fought for their recognition in Morocco For decades after Moroccan independence in 1956, the struggle of the Amazigh people for their indigenous rights and cultural preservation took center stage. They fought against their erasure under an exclusivist Arab nationalist regime. Ultimately, they were ......
A memoir of how the Amazigh people successfully fought for their recognition in Morocco For decades after Moroccan independence in 1956, the struggle of the Amazigh people for their indigenous rights and cultural preservation took center stage. They fought against their erasure under an exclusivist Arab nationalist regime. Ultimately, they were ......
For Christian European missionaries among the Cherokees at the turn of the eighteenth century, translating the Bible meant wrestling with the extreme structural differences between Cherokee and English. The New Voice of God reveals how these linguistic differences encoded basic predispositions and orientations toward the physical, spiritual, and ......
A new framework for understanding how language and identity intersect in ever-evolving America In the 1980s, Washington, DC-a predominantly African American, racially and economically segregated city with a strong local Black culture-became a hub of Latin American immigration. As the city's communities interacted, an identity both unique to DC ......
A new framework for understanding how language and identity intersect in ever-evolving America In the 1980s, Washington, DC-a predominantly African American, racially and economically segregated city with a strong local Black culture-became a hub of Latin American immigration. As the city's communities interacted, an identity both unique to DC ......
New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individuals Dialect contact occurs whenever speakers of mutually intelligible language varieties interact. Many linguists are interested in the outcome of such contact-how it leads people and languages to vary and change, and what such patterns can ......
New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individuals Dialect contact occurs whenever speakers of mutually intelligible language varieties interact. Many linguists are interested in the outcome of such contact-how it leads people and languages to vary and change, and what such patterns can ......
How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the Holocaust The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousands of Yiddish words and phrases to describe their ......
A fascinating cultural and linguistic history of the Slavic languages, exploring the deep connections and distinctions between them Water, whiskey, and vodka are three words that seem to have nothing in common, but each of them comes from the same root. Water, Whiskey, and Vodka takes a deep dive into the origins of the Slavic languages, ......
