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Romance languages: Articles

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  • “Latin: Don’t think it’s a dead language” by Jonathan Wells. Newbury Port News, Sept. 12, 2011.
  • “Renaissance Truth and the Latin Language Turn” by Alan R. Perreiah. Journal of the History of Philosophy, Volume 44, Number 2, April 2006.
  • “Making Ireland Roman: Irish neo-Latin writers and the republic of letters” by Naomi McAreavey. Irish Studies Review. Vol. 18, No. 3 (Aug. 2010): 376-8.
  • “Catholic Church Losing Followers in Droves (in Latin America)” by Diego Cevallos. IPS, Oct. 21, 2004.
  • “France bans immigrants wearing burqas in state language classes” by Jenny Barchfield. USA Today, Oct. 9, 2008.
  • “Breaking Barriers: Language, Religion Hinder Frank Talk About AIDS” by Robin Williams Adams. The Ledger, June 26, 2009.
  • “Religion and Identity: Families of Italian Origin in the Nottingham Area, UK” by Deianira Ganga. Migration Letters, 2005.
  • “Religion as a site of language contact” by Bernard Spolsky. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 23:81-94, 2003.
  • “Montreal priests say they’re in no rush to return to Latin in masses; Pope’s decree ‘not relevant,’ hasn’t even come up for discussion, one pastor says.” The Gazette (Montreal), Sept. 5, 2007.
  • “History at risk as Latin fades away” by Peter Jennings. The Times (London), Dec. 29, 2007.
  • “We’ll keep crucifix up, Charest says; Unanimous vote. Motion also reaffirms promotion of French” by Kevin Dougherty. The Gazette (Montreal), May 23, 2008.
  • “‘What has Rome to do with Bethlehem?’ Cultural Capital(s) and Religious Imperialism in Late Ancient Christianity” by Andrew S. Jacobs. Classical Receptions Journal. Vol. 3, No. 1 (2011): 29-45.

Romance languages: Books

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  • Language, culture, and society: key topics in linguistic anthropology. Christine Jourdan and Kevin Tuite. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Converting Words: Maya in the Age of the Cross. William F. Hanks. University of California Press, 2010.
  • On the Latin Language. Marcus Terentius Varro (translated by R.G. Kent). Wm Heinemann Ltd., Harvard Univ. Press.
  • The Latin Language and Christianity. Paul Berry. Edwin Mellen Press, 2004.
  • Pray It in Latin, Louis Pizzuti. Lulu.com, 2006.
  • Reading French: A Guide for Students of Religion and Theology. K. Janet Ritch. Clements Publishing, 2006.
  • The politics of language: conflict, identity and cultural pluralism in comparative perspective. Carol L. Schmid. Oxford University Press US, 2001.
  • Remains of Arabic in the Spanish and Portugese Languages. Stephen Weston. Nabu Press, 2011.
  • Language, religion and national identity in Europe and the Middle East: a historical study. John Myhill. Jon Benjamins Publishing Company, 2006.
  • Monolingualism and bilingualism: lessons from Canada and Spain. Sue Wright. Multilingual Matters, 1996.
  • Local religion in colonial Mexico. Martin Austin Nesvig. UNM Press, 2006.
  • Rereading the Renaissance: Petrarch, Augustine and the Language of Humanism. Carol Everhart Quillen. University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Romance languages: Case Studies

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  • “Tradition and change in language and discourse: three case studies.” Southwest Journal of Linguistics, June 6, 2001.
  • “Global Knowledge-based Policy in Fragmented Societies: the case of curriculum reform in French-speaking Belgium” by Eric Mangez. European Journal of Education. Vol. 45, No. 1 (March 2010): 60-73.