Words Like Birds - Ferguson - Books - University of Nebraska Press - 9781496208880 - February 1, 2019
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Words Like Birds


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What does it mean to speak Sakha in the city? Words like Birds, a linguistic ethnography of Sakha discourses and practices in urban Far Eastern Russia, examines the factors that have aided speakers in maintaining - and adapting - their minority language over the course of four hundred years of contact with Russian speakers and the federal power apparatus.


336 pages, 3 maps, 2 tables, 19 photographs, index

Media Books     Book
Released February 1, 2019
ISBN13 9781496208880
Publishers University of Nebraska Press
Pages 336
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   648 g

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