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  • 228 sidor
  • 2023
This collection of thirty short, very engaging chapters on linguistics and languages from around the world, masterfully balanced between the anecdotal and the incisive, is a genuine prize for scholars and beginners and will surely whet the appetite of anyone contemplating learning a foreign language or seeking deeper insights into the workings of language.Chapters include:Speech and the Brain: We Know What We Don't Know; First writings. Sumerian; The Baby Linguist: Genius in the Crib; Music: A Universal Language? ;Interpreting and Translating;Sign Language; Machine translation; Language History; The Lingua Franca ;Whistled Languages; Language, Thought, and Reality; Pidgins and Creoles;Astrolinguistics, Endangered Languages;Language Engineering: China;Italian;Black English;Appalachia;Beautiful Basque (Euskara) ;Vietnamese ;Quechua;Korean;Filipino: Expanded Tagalog; Arabic ; Chinese; Esperanto;Spanish and Portuguese;Ukrainian ;Learning Another Language

  • Författare: T Nelson Thompson
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9798986688626
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 228
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-02-28
  • Förlag: All Bilingual Press