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The Tongue Of Adam
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Author : Abdelfattah Kilito
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2016-11-22
The Tongue Of Adam written by Abdelfattah Kilito and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-22 with Religion categories.
A playful and erudite look at the origins of language In the beginning there was one language—one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. “These days, no one bothers to ask about the tongue of Adam. It is a naive question, vaguely embarrassing and irksome, like questions posed by children, which one can only answer rather stupidly.” So begins Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Tongue of Adam, a delightful series of lectures. With a Borgesian flair for riddles, stories, and subtle scholarly distinctions, Kilito presents an assortment of discussions related to Adam’s tongue, including translation, comparative religion, and lexicography: for example, how, from Babel onward, can we explain the plurality of language? Or can Adam’s poetry be judged aesthetically, the same as any other poem? Drawing from the commentators of the Koran to Walter Benjamin, from the esoteric speculations of Judaism to Herodotus, The Tongue of Adam is a nimble book about the mysterious rise of humankind’s multilingualism.
Adam S Tongue
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Author : Derek Bickerton
language : en
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Release Date : 2009-03-17
Adam S Tongue written by Derek Bickerton and has been published by Hill and Wang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-17 with Science categories.
How language evolved has been called "the hardest problem in science." In Adam's Tongue, Derek Bickerton—long a leading authority in this field—shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom. Language is unique to humans, but it isn't the only thing that sets us apart from other species—our cognitive powers are qualitatively different. So could there be two separate discontinuities between humans and the rest of nature? No, says Bickerton; he shows how the mere possession of symbolic units—words—automatically opened a new and different cognitive universe, one that yielded novel innovations ranging from barbed arrowheads to the Apollo spacecraft. Written in Bickerton's lucid and irreverent style, this book is the first that thoroughly integrates the story of how language evolved with the story of how humans evolved. Sure to be controversial, it will make indispensable reading both for experts in the field and for every reader who has ever wondered how a species as remarkable as ours could have come into existence.
The Language Of Adam
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Author : Russell A. Fraser
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1977
The Language Of Adam written by Russell A. Fraser and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This collection of short stories focuses on the Scottish civil war of 1644-45, in which the Marquis of Montrose led his royalist forces in a series of stunning victories against the odds before his final defeat at Philiphaugh. Each of Hogg's five tales centres on one of the five major battles of Montrose's brilliant but ultimately futile campaign. Each tale is utterly different from the others in genre and tone, but taken together they build up a composite picture of what it was like to experience the 'anarchy and confusion' of the time at first hand.
The Adam Man Tongue
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Author : Edmund Shaftesbury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1903
The Adam Man Tongue written by Edmund Shaftesbury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1903 with Adam-man (Artificial language) categories.
The Language Of Adam Volume 1
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Author : David Grant Stewart
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-08-03
The Language Of Adam Volume 1 written by David Grant Stewart and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-03 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The first grammar ever published of the language of Adam, the ancestor of all the world's languages.
The Clash Of Images
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Author : Abdelfattah Kilito
language : en
Publisher: Darf Publishers Ltd.
Release Date : 2018-04-02
The Clash Of Images written by Abdelfattah Kilito and has been published by Darf Publishers Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-02 with Fiction categories.
The Clash of Images is a sweet, Borgesian mix of bildungsroman memoir, family history, short-story collection, fable, and literary criticism. Written in a graceful and charming style, Kilito’s story takes place in an unnamed coastal city of memories where a child experiences first-hand the cultural clash of text and image in a changing, modern society. It is a time when the old Arabic world of texts and oral traditions is making way for something new: the era of the image, the comic book, photo IDs, and the cinema. The stories form a kaleidoscopic memoir of growing up in two worlds, a brilliant mixture of cultural and family history. Here are tales of first kisses and first reads, Tintin and the Prophet Muhammad, fantasies of the Wild West, the inferno of the bathhouse, and the lost paradises of childhood. The Clash of Images is a celebration of the pleasures of storytelling, a magic lantern that delicately reveals how the world of books intimately connects with the world outside their pages.
The Tongue
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Author : Ivet Graham-Morgan
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2008-06-05
The Tongue written by Ivet Graham-Morgan and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-05 with Family & Relationships categories.
The Tongue: An Evil Master...A Good Servant —wholly inspired by a family's misery brought on by the tumor called gossip and later observations at a church considered 'Pentecostal-based'. The author focused on the source of the cancer and the antidote, found in the Word of God. It is the author's hope that everyone who reads this book will discern the real enemy of mankind and seek to silence him in their own lives instead of allowing him to use them to cause dissension in the life of their fellow man.
La Langue D Adam
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Author : Abdelfattah Kilito
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
La Langue D Adam written by Abdelfattah Kilito and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with categories.
Snow Crash
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Author : Neal Stephenson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1994-10-27
Snow Crash written by Neal Stephenson and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-10-27 with Fiction categories.
THE 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED MATERIAL After the Internet, what came next? Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash. A cyberdrug that reduces avatars in the digital world to dust, but also infects users in real life, leaving them in a vegetative state. This is bad news for Hiro, a freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter, and mouthy skateboard courier Y. T.. Together, investigating the Infocalypse, they trace back the roots of language itself to an ancient Sumerian priesthood and find they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination. In this special edition of the remarkably prescient modern classic, Neal Stephenson explores linguistics, computer science, politics and philosophy in the form of a break-neck adventure into the fast-approaching yet eerily recognizable future. 'Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century' William Gibson 'Brilliantly realized' New York Times Book Review 'Like a Pynchon novel with the brakes removed' Washington Post 'A remarkably prescient vision of today's tech landscape' Vanity Fair
The Lying Tongue
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Author : Andrew Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-02-20
The Lying Tongue written by Andrew Wilson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-20 with Fiction categories.
Fresh from finishing university in England, Adam Woods arrives in Venice to begin a new chapter in his life. He soon secures employment as the personal assistant of Gordon Crace -- a famous expatriate novelist who makes his home in a dank and crumbling palazzo, surrounded by fabulous works of art, piles of unanswered correspondence and the memories of his former literary glory. Before long Adam becomes indispensable to the feeble Crace, and he finds himself at once drawn to and repelled by his elderly employer's brilliant mind and eccentric habits. As Adam comes to learn more about the scandal that brought Crace to Venice years ago, he realizes he has stumbled upon the raw material that could launch his own literary career and makes a bold decision: He will secretly write the famous author's biography. But outsmarting Crace is easier said than done, and the two soon find themselves locked in a bitter contest over the right to determine how the story of Crace's life will end. Against the haunting backdrop of the serene city, the two men engage in a ruthless game of cat and mouse that builds to a breathtaking and unexpected conclusion.