Titre:
Trip of the tongue : cross-country travels in search of America's languages
Auteur:
GVPL_EDITION:
1st U.S. ed.
PUBDATE:
2012
GVPL_PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.
Description matérielle:
309 p. ; 25 cm.
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN):
9781596916562
Résumé:
Documents the author's travels throughout the country, where she witnesses firsthand the nation's many cultures and languages and what they say about who we are individually, socially and politically.
Table des matières:
New York City: American -- Montana: Crow -- Arizona: Navajo -- Washington: Lushootseed, Quileute, Makah -- Louisiana: French and Louisiana Creole -- South Carolina: Gullah -- Nevada: Basque -- North Dakota: Norwegian -- Florida: Haitian Creole -- New Mexico: Spanish -- Los Angeles: English.
LANGUAGE:
Anglais