ID - 79524459 TI - The language of hunter-gatherers AU - Güldemann, Tom AU - McConvell, Patrick AU - Rhodes, Richard A PY - 2018 SN - 9781107003682 9781139026208 1108631150 1139026208 1107003687 1108577199 9781108631150 PB - New York DB - UniCat KW - Asian languages KW - African languages KW - Amerindian languages KW - South American Indian languages KW - Oceanic languages KW - Language and culture KW - Languages in contact KW - Hunting and gathering societies KW - Food gathering societies KW - Gathering and hunting societies KW - Hunter-gatherers KW - Hunting, Primitive KW - Ethnology KW - Subsistence hunting KW - Areal linguistics KW - Culture and language KW - Culture KW - History KW - E-books KW - Historische Sprachwissenschaft. KW - Hunting and gathering societies. KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. KW - Language and culture. KW - Languages in contact. KW - Linguistik. KW - Soziolinguistik. KW - Sprachtypologie. KW - Sprachursprung. KW - Wildbeuter. KW - 2000-2099. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79524459 AB - Hunter-gatherers are often portrayed as 'others' standing outside the main trajectory of human social evolution. But even after eleven millennia of agriculture and two centuries of widespread industrialization, hunter-gatherer societies continue to exist. This volume, using the lens of language, offers us a window into the inner workings of twenty-first-century hunter-gatherer societies - how they survive and how they interface with societies that produce more. It challenges long-held assumptions about the limits on social dynamism in hunter-gatherer societies to show that their languages are no different either typologically or sociolinguistically from other languages. With its worldwide coverage, this volume serves as a report on the state of hunter-gatherer societies at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and readers in all geographical areas will find arguments of relevance here. ER -