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Through The Language Glass
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Author : Guy Deutscher
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-08-04
Through The Language Glass written by Guy Deutscher and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
"Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics... he argues in a playful and provocative way, that our mother tongue does indeed affect how we think and, just as important, how we perceive the world." Observer *Does language reflect the culture of a society? *Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world? *Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? In Through the Language Glass, acclaimed author Guy Deutscher will convince you that, contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, the answer to all these questions is - yes. A delightful amalgam of cultural history and popular science, this book explores some of the most fascinating and controversial questions about language, culture and the human mind.
Through The Language Glass
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Author : Guy Deutscher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Through The Language Glass written by Guy Deutscher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Comparative linguistics categories.
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
Language Through The Looking Glass
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Author : Marina Yaguello
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Language Through The Looking Glass written by Marina Yaguello and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
What can wordplay--as understood in the broadest sense--teach us about language, its functions, characteristics, structure, and workings? Using Lewis Carroll's Alice as a starting point, Yanguello takes the reader on a vivid and unconventional voyage into the world(s) of language, charting the major themes of linguistics along the way. This is an entertaining and original introduction to the nature of language that will appeal to students and teachers alike.
The Unfolding Of Language
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Author : Guy Deutscher
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2006-05-02
The Unfolding Of Language written by Guy Deutscher and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-02 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Philosophy Through The Looking Glass
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Author : Jean-Jacques Lecercle
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-08-05
Philosophy Through The Looking Glass written by Jean-Jacques Lecercle and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-05 with Philosophy categories.
It is generally accepted that language is primarily a means of communication. But do we always mean what we say – must we mean something when we talk? This book explores the other side of language, where words are incoherent and meaning fails us. it argues that this shadey side of language is more important in our everyday speech than linguists and philosophers recognize. Historically this other side of language known as has attracted more attention in France than elsewhere. It is particularly interesting because it brings together texts from a wide range of fields, including fiction, poetry and linguistics. The author also discusses the kind of linguistics that must be developed to deal with such texts, a linguistics which makes use of psychoanalytic knowledge. This tradition of writing has produced a major philosopher, Gilles Deleuze. This book provides an introduction to his work, an account of his original theory of meaning and an analysis of the celebrated Anti-Oedipus, which takes délire as one of its main themes.
Syntactic Change In Akkadian
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Author : Guy Deutscher
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2000-11-09
Syntactic Change In Akkadian written by Guy Deutscher and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Akkadian is one of the earliest attested languages and the oldest recorded Semitic language. It exists in written record between 2500BC and 500BC, much of it in letters and reports concerned with domestic and business matters, and written in colloquial language. It provides a unique and valuable source for the study of linguistic change but which, perhaps because of the impenetrability of its writing system, has rarely been exploited by linguists. In this book, Guy Deutscher examines the historical development of subordinate structures in Akkadian. A case study comprises the first two parts of the book, presenting an historical grammar of sentential complementation. Part I traces the emergence of new structures and describes how the finite complements first emerged in Babylonian. It also explains the grammaticalization of the quotative construction. Part II is a functional history which examines the changes in the functional roles of different structures. It shows how, during the history of the language, finite complements and embedded questions became more widespread, whereas other structures (e.g. infinite complements, parataxis, etc.) receded. Part III seeks to explain the historical developments in a theoretical light, showing how the development in Akkadian is mirrored in many other languages. It goes on to suggest that the emergence of finite complementation may be seen as 'adaptive' and related to the development of more complex communication patterns. This book will be of interest to both specialists and general linguists alike. For specialists it offers a contribution towards a badly-needed historical grammar of the Akkadian language. For general linguists this book will be of interest not only for the questions which it raises about the nature of complementation, but also for the window which it provides on to this little-known language.
The Entropy Crisis
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Author : Guy Deutscher
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2008
The Entropy Crisis written by Guy Deutscher and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Science categories.
Intends to prove that the "energy crisis" is an entropy crisis. This book uses examples from daily experiences to introduce the concept of entropy. It shows that the entropy increase due to irreversible transformations simultaneously determines the level of fresh energy supplies of our society and the damage that it causes to the environment.
Language Through The Looking Glass
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Author : Felicity Craig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Language Through The Looking Glass written by Felicity Craig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literacy categories.
Through The Looking Glass
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Author : Cynthia Susan Chalupa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Through The Looking Glass written by Cynthia Susan Chalupa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
Alice S Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass
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Author : Lewis Carroll
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Alice S Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass written by Lewis Carroll and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Children's stories, English categories.