Secret languages of Afghanistan and their speakers
By: by Jadwiga Pstrusinska ; translated into English by Agata Lenard ; edited by Agata Lenard and Ben Young
Contributors: Lenard, Agata, editor, translator; Young, Ben, editor
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Translated from: pol
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781443849708
Subjects: Languages; Cant; Sociolinguistics
Work titles: O tajnych językach Afganistanu i ich użytkownikach
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page [146]-160) and index.
Table of contents: title: On the definition and nature of a secret language; title: The ethnolinguistic situation in Afghanistan; title: Polish research on the secret languages in Afghanistan; title: The secret languages of Afghanistan and their speakers; title: On the secret languages of the region; title: Ethnic languages functioning as secret ones; title: Sacred secret languages; title: On the social placement of the speakers of secret languages; title: Modes of encoding and secret vocabulary.