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Babel de Gaston Dorren

Babel

Autor Gaston Dorren
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 dec 2018
English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 billion people, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He investigates these top twenty world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Tamil, Bengali). Babel whisks the reader on a delightful journey to every continent of the world, tracing how these world languages rose to greatness while others fell away, and showing how speakers today handle the foibles of their mother tongues. From tongue-tying phonetics to elegant but confusing writing scripts, and mind-bending quirks of grammar, Babel is a testament to the idea of Charlemagne's that "to speak another language is to possess another soul."

Among many other things, Babel will teach you why Russian has no word for blue, how and why Turkish stopped borrowing words from other languages, and why Arabic might be the hardest language to learn. Dorren forecasts the future of Chinese script, re-examines the Latin alphabet's gory past, and explains why you have to be very careful not to offend someone when speaking Javanese, which offers a choice of five different registers or khrong for most words in the language, depending on the social class of the person being addressed. Not a language for the faint-hearted. Witty, fascinating and utterly compelling, and a lot easier than learning twenty languages, Babel will change the way you look at the world and how it speaks.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780802128799
ISBN-10: 0802128793
Pagini: 320
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Atlantic Monthly Press

Notă biografică

Gaston Dorren is the author of Lingo, a book on European languages that, as the Telegraph put it, is 'both genuinely interesting and enormous fun [with his] impressive ability to flip with ease from jokes and surprising facts to the discussion of complex linguistic ideas'. He is a regular contributor to the popular linguistics magazine Onze Taal, and edits the Language Writer blog. A true polyglot, Gaston speaks Dutch, Limburgish, English, German and Spanish, and reads French, Afrikaans, Frisian, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Luxembourgish and Esperanto. While writing Babel, he also tried to learn Vietnamese.

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Eye-opening and thoroughly entertaining ... [Dorren] is wonderful company: chatty, informative, enthusiastic.
Hugely readable ... Dorren is both an intimidatingly gifted linguist and a wonderfully eloquent writer. You couldn't wish for a better guide to the wonders of the world's bewildering array of tongues.