| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 169 pages) |
| Contents |
On the definition and nature of a secret language -- The ethnolinguistic situation in Afghanistan -- Polish research on the secret languages in Afghanistan -- The secret languages of Afghanistan and their speakers -- On the secret languages of the region -- Ethnic languages functioning as secret ones -- Sacred secret languages -- On the social placement of the speakers of secret languages -- Modes of encoding and secret vocabulary |
| Summary |
This is a study of an almost inaccessible area of the intricate linguistic fabric of Afghanistan - namely, its secret codes of communication. The text draws on a profound knowledge of Afghanistan and neighbouring regions, as well as the cultural and sociolinguistic processes at work across Eurasia. The author situates these sociolinguistic matters within the appropriate diachronic and comparative background, and traces the numerous threads which connect them to areas both close to and distant .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-160) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cant -- Afghanistan
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Sociolinguistics -- Afghanistan
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Dialect, slang & jargon.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Bilingualism & multilingualism.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
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Cant
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Language and languages
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Sociolinguistics
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| SUBJECT |
Afghanistan -- Languages.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001523
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| Subject |
Afghanistan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lenard, Agata, editor, translator
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Young, Ben, editor
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| ISBN |
9781443864411 |
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1443864412 |
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1306992486 |
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9781306992480 |
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