The Unfolding Of Language

Author : Guy Deutscher
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1466837837
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unfolding of Language written by Guy Deutscher and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the development of that most essential-and mysterious-of human creations: Language "Language is mankind's greatest invention-except, of course, that it was never invented." So begins linguist Guy Deutscher's enthralling investigation into the genesis and evolution of language. If we started off with rudimentary utterances on the level of "man throw spear," how did we end up with sophisticated grammars, enormous vocabularies, and intricately nuanced degrees of meaning? Drawing on recent groundbreaking discoveries in modern linguistics, Deutscher exposes the elusive forces of creation at work in human communication, giving us fresh insight into how language emerges, evolves, and decays. He traces the evolution of linguistic complexity from an early "Me Tarzan" stage to such elaborate single-word constructions as the Turkish sehirlilestiremediklerimizdensiniz ("you are one of those whom we couldn't turn into a town dweller"). Arguing that destruction and creation in language are intimately entwined, Deutscher shows how these processes are continuously in operation, generating new words, new structures, and new meanings. As entertaining as it is erudite, The Unfolding of Language moves nimbly from ancient Babylonian to American idiom, from the central role of metaphor to the staggering triumph of design that is the Semitic verb, to tell the dramatic story and explain the genius behind a uniquely human faculty.

Author : Guy Deutscher
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805080124
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unfolding of Language written by Guy Deutscher and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the development of that most essential-and mysterious-of human creations: Language"--

Author : Guy Deutscher
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429970112
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through the Language Glass written by Guy Deutscher and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how—and whether—culture shapes language and language, culture Linguistics has long shied away from claiming any link between a language and the culture of its speakers: too much simplistic (even bigoted) chatter about the romance of Italian and the goose-stepping orderliness of German has made serious thinkers wary of the entire subject. But now, acclaimed linguist Guy Deutscher has dared to reopen the issue. Can culture influence language—and vice versa? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? Could our experience of the world depend on whether our language has a word for "blue"? Challenging the consensus that the fundaments of language are hard-wired in our genes and thus universal, Deutscher argues that the answer to all these questions is—yes. In thrilling fashion, he takes us from Homer to Darwin, from Yale to the Amazon, from how to name the rainbow to why Russian water—a "she"—becomes a "he" once you dip a tea bag into her, demonstrating that language does in fact reflect culture in ways that are anything but trivial. Audacious, delightful, and field-changing, Through the Language Glass is a classic of intellectual discovery.

Author : Guy Deutscher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780434016907
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through the Language Glass written by Guy Deutscher and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generalisations about language and culture are at best amusing and meaningless, but is there anything sensible left to be said about the relation between language, culture and thought? *Does language reflect the culture of a society? *I

Author : Thiselton Mark
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unfolding of Personality as the Chief Aim in Education written by Thiselton Mark and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1910 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ford Cyrinde Ottman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unfolding of the Ages in the Revelation of John written by Ford Cyrinde Ottman and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heinz Kloss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unfolding of Afrikaans in Its Germanic, African and World Context written by Heinz Kloss and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albion W. Small
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Journal of Sociology written by Albion W. Small and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1895 as the first U.S. scholarly journal in its field, AJS remains a leading voice for analysis and research in the social sciences, presenting work on the theory, methods, practice, and history of sociology. AJS also seeks the application of perspectives from other social sciences and publishes papers by psychologists, anthropologists, statisticians, economists, educators, historians, and political scientists.

Author : Babak A. Ebrahimian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time-space Transfiguration and the Unfolding of the [frame] written by Babak A. Ebrahimian and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Sallis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
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Download or read book Reading Heidegger written by John Sallis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an international conference in Chicago commemorating the hundredth anniversary of Martin Heidegger's birth, this volume includes essays by many of the most distinguished interpreters of Heidegger's philosophy from North America, Europe, and Asia. Taking account of the numerous texts by Heidegger that have been published for the first time in the past decade, these essays discuss and extend Heidegger's thought as it bears on a broad range of fundamental philosophical questions.