Book Launch Water, Whiskey and Vodka by Danko Šipka
Event description
- Academic events
- Free
- Open to the public
ASU Professor Šipka shares his latest book that is "a fascinating cultural and linguistic history of the Slavic languages, exploring the deep connections and distinctions between them."
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Water, Whiskey, and Vodka takes a deep dive into the origins of the Slavic languages, from a common ancestor language through various cultural and historical shifts to arrive at the current breadth of languages. The book takes a captivating look at the unique sociolinguistic context of the Slavic languages and pays special attention to the cultural subtleties particular to each one and the people who speak it. Danko Šipka touches on the origins of the Slavic languages, their linguistic similarities and differences, word borrowing across them all, and the cultural importance of languages even within this family of languages.
Water, Whiskey, and Vodka will fascinate readers—whether or not they speak Slavic languages—interested in the history and development of one or more Slavic languages. Writing from the Slavic linguistic tradition, where talking about language happens in the public sphere, he offers readers a deeper understanding of various Slavic cultural traditions and historical events as they are reflected in their languages.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Danko Šipka is a professor of Slavic languages and applied linguistics at Arizona State University, where he teaches Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Polish, Slavic and general linguistics in the School of International Letters and Cultures.
His experience includes stints at the universities of Sarajevo, Belgrade (former Yugoslavia), Poznan, Wroclaw, Warsaw, the Jagiellonian University (Poland), the universities of Munich and Dusseldorf (Germany), Hokkaido University (Japan), the Australian National University (Australia), the University of Illinois, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University (USA). Šipka has also served as a senior linguist and consultant to numerous language industry companies.