John McWhorter
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ISBN 978-0-19-046889-7
EAN 9780190468897
Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak ...
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The Power of Babel
A Natural History of Language
- Harper Collins USA, 2003
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PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-06-052085-4
EAN 9780060520854
There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, linguistics professor John McWhorter reminds us of the variety within the species that speaks them, and argues that, contrary to popular ...
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