Bookshelf

The virtual bookshelf for 2011 has been taken offline. If you wish to receive a copy of any of the readings below, please email otsp@ls.berkeley.edu.

How Different Languages Can Be

  • Columbus, Christopher. Four Voyages to the New World; Letters and Selected Documents Translated and Edited by R H Major Introduction by John E Fagg. Bi-lingual edition [PDF, 343 KB]. New York,: Corinth Books, 1961.
    • pages 1-68
  • Deutscher, Guy. Through the Language Glass : How Words Colour Your World [PDF, 3 MB]. London: William Heinemann, 2010.
    • chapter 7 “Where the Sun Doesn’t Rise in the East”
  • Everett, Daniel L. Don't Sleep, there are Snakes : Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle [PDF, 255 KB]. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 2008.
    • chapter 11 “Changing Channels with Piraha Sounds”
  • Kingston, Maxine Hong. I Love a Broad Margin to my Life [PDF, 158 KB]. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
    • page 129 and glossary
  • Okrent, Arika. In the Land of Invented Languages : Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language [PDF, 430 KB]. 1st ed. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2009.
    • “Charles Bliss and the Language of Symbols”

Languages: Major and Minor

  • Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca, and translated Mark Seielstad. Genes, Peoples, and Languages [PDF, 3.5 MB]. 1st ed. New York: North Point Press, 2000.
    • Chapter 5 “Genes and Languages”
  • Ostler, Nicholas. Ad Infinitum : A Biography of Latin [PDF, 1.5 MB]. New York: Walker & Co, 2007.
    • Chapter 20 “Sub specie aeternitatis – Latin Today”
  • ---. Empires of the Word : A Language History of the World [PDF, 820 KB]. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
    • Chapter 13 “The Current Top Twenty”
  • ---. The Last Lingua Franca : English Until the Return of Babel [PDF, 430 KB]. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Walker & Co., 2010.
    • Chapter 12 “Under an English Sun, the Shadows Lengthen”

English

  • Bragg, Melvyn. The Adventure of English : 500AD to 2000 : The Biography of a Language [PDF, 167 KB]. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003.
    • Chapter 20 “The West Indies”
  • Bryson, Bill. The Mother Tongue : English & how it Got that Way [PDF, 222 KB]. New York: Avon Books, 1991.
    • Chapter 9 “Good English and Bad”
  • Lippi-Green, Rosina. English with an Accent : Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States [PDF, 441 KB]. London ; New York: Routledge, 1997.
    • Part I, Introduction "Language ideology: science fiction?"
    • Part III, Introduction "Our naked skins"
    • Chapter 9 "The real trouble with Black English"
    • Chapter 10 "Hillbillies, rednecks, and southern belles: the language rebels"
  • Prins, Yopie. "Historical Poetics, Dysprosody, and The Science of English Verse" [PDF, 400 KB]. PMLA 123.1 (200801): 229-234.

Moving Between Languages

  • Anzaldúa, Gloria E. “A Geography of Selves” and “Composing the Work, the Self, the World” [PDF, 644 KB]. Interviews/ Entrevistas. Edited by AnaLouise Keating. New York : Routledge, 2000.
  • Arceneaux, Jean. “Translations of Jean Arceneaux” Trans. Clint Bruce. Equinoxes: A Graduate Journal of French and Francophone Studies no. 2 (2003-2004): n. pag. Web. 15 April 2011
  • Barili, Amelia. “De brújulas y nepantlas: Identidad y fronteras en Borges y Anzaldúa.” [PDF, 171 KB]. Itinerarios. Revista de Estudios Lingüísticos, Literarios, Históricos y Antropológicos 9 (2009): 9-21. Department of Hispanic and Hispano-American Studies. Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures. University of Warsaw
  • Begag, Azouz, Alec G. Hargreaves, and Naïma Wolf, eds. Shantytown Kid = Le Gone Du Chaâba [PDF, 237 KB]. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
    • pp 91-133
  • Castillo, Ana. Loverboys : Stories [PDF, 178 KB]. New York: Plume, 1997.
    • "Subtitles"
  • Daudet, Alphonse. Five Short Stories. Vol. XIII, Part 4. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1917; Bartleby.com, 2000.
    • “The Last Class – The Story of a Little Alsatian”
  • Hoffman, Eva. Lost in Translation : A Life in a New Language [PDF, 297 KB]. 1st ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989.
    • pages 99-127
  • Kramsch, Claire. The Multilingual Subject : What Foreign Language Learners Say about their Experience and Why it Matters [PDF, 215 KB]. Oxford, UK ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • Laqueur, Thomas. "Diary." [PDF, 38 KB] London Review of Books 25.23 (2003): 38.
  • Rich, Katherine Russell. Dreaming in Hindi : Coming Awake in another Language [PDF, 511 KB]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
    • Chapter 4 “What time is it?”
    • Chapter 12 “This is a major problem and cannot be disposed of so easily”
  • Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez : An Autobiography [PDF, 400 KB]. Boston, Mass.: D.R. Godine, 1982.
    • pages 7-41
  • Thien, Madeleine. Simple Recipes : Stories [PDF, 70 KB]. 1st U.S. ed. Boston: Little Brown, 2002.
    • “Simple Recipes” (first story)
  • Thúy, Lê Thi Diem. The Gangster we are all Looking For [PDF, 122 KB]. 1st ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003.
    • pp 3-35

Language Loss and Endangered Languages

  • Hinton, Leanne. Flutes of Fire : Essays on California Indian Languages [PDF, 761 KB]. Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books, 1994.
    • Introduction: “The California Mosaic”
    • “Living California Indian Languages”
    • “Language and the Structure of Thought”
    • “Languages under Attack”
    • “Ashes, ashes: John P. Harrington - Then and Now”
    • poem on p. 220
  • ---. "Involuntary language loss among immigrants: Asian-American Linguistic Autobiographies." Center for Applied Linguistics: Resources: Online Digests December 1999. n. pag. Web. 15 April 2011
  • Kouritzin, Sandra. Facets of First Language Loss [PDF, 410 KB]. Mahwah, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1999.
    • Chapter 1 “A Pre/text for Language Loss Research”
    • Chapter 17 “The Meaning of Loss”

The Language of Civility

  • Letiche, John M. Crises and Compassion : From Russia to the Golden Gate [PDF, 59 KB]. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011.
    • "Concluding Observations: The Short Term and the Long"