TY - BOOK ID - 77882847 TI - History and the testimony of language PY - 2011 SN - 1283277328 9786613277329 0520947592 9780520947597 9780520262041 0520262042 9780520262058 0520262050 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Social history. KW - Language and history. KW - History KW - Descriptive sociology KW - Social conditions KW - Social history KW - Sociology KW - History and language KW - Linguistics and history KW - Historiography KW - Methodology. KW - Africa KW - History. KW - Histoire sociale. KW - Histoire KW - Langage et histoire KW - Langage et histoire. KW - Méthodologie. KW - Afrique KW - Conditions sociales KW - Histoire. KW - africa. KW - african classical age. KW - african history. KW - african languages. KW - african linguistics. KW - easy to read. KW - engaging. KW - historians. KW - historical linguists. KW - historical studies. KW - historical study. KW - historical. KW - historiography. KW - history of languages. KW - history scholars. KW - history. KW - language and grammar. KW - language phyla. KW - language. KW - linguistic history. KW - linguistics. KW - nonfiction guide. KW - nonfiction. KW - oral histories. KW - political. KW - power of language. KW - world history. KW - world languages. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77882847 AB - This book is about history and the practical power of language to reveal historical change. Christopher Ehret offers a methodological guide to applying language evidence in historical studies. He demonstrates how these methods allow us not only to recover the histories of time periods and places poorly served by written documentation, but also to enrich our understanding of well-documented regions and eras. A leading historian as well as historical linguist of Africa, Ehret provides in-depth examples from the language phyla of Africa, arguing that his comprehensive treatment can be applied by linguistically trained historians and historical linguists working with any language and in any area of the world. ER -