Tore Janson
Tore Janson (born 1936) is a
University of Stockholm
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He devoted much of his time and publishing activities to the way languages change as well as the relationship between language and society.[1]
He is the author of the international bestsellers Speak: A Short History of Languages and A Natural History of Latin.
Works
English
- Speak: A Short History of Languages, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-19-829978-3
- A Natural History of Latin, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004. ISBN 978-0-19-926309-7
- The History of Languages: An Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-960428-9
Swedish
- Latin Kulturen, historien, språket, Wahlström & Widstrand, 2002 ISBN 91-46-18335-3
- Språken och historien (transl. language and history), Stockholm: Norstedts, 2008. ISBN 978-91-7227-587-4
- Språkens historia. En upptäcktsresa i tid och rum (transl. Language's history, a discovery journey across time and space), Stockholm: Norstedts, 2010. ISBN 978-91-1-303308-2
- Germanerna, Stockholm: Norstedts, 2013. ISBN 978-91-1-303286-3
References
- ^ Author profile at Norstedts publishers Archived 2012-05-13 at the Wayback Machine, translated from Swedish, retrieved 20 Dec 2011
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