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Authors: Julie Tetel Andresen,Phillip M. Carter

Languages In the World

Languages in the World
How History, Culture, and Politics Shape Language

Julie Tetel Andresen
Phillip M. Carter

This edition first published 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Andresen, Julie Tetel, 1950– author.
   Languages in the world : how history, culture, and politics shape language / Julie Tetel Andresen and Phillip M. Carter.
      pages cm
   Includes bibliographical references and index.
   ISBN 978-1-118-53125-9 (cloth) – ISBN 978-1-118-53128-0 (pbk.)   1. Language and languages–Globalization.   2. Language and culture–History.   3. Languages in contact.   4. Historical linguistics.   5. Sociolinguistics.   I. Carter, Phillip M. author.   II. Title.
   P130.5.A53 2016
   306.44–dc23

2015019352

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