Babel : around the world in twenty languages
Dorren, Gaston2018
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If you were to master the 20 languages discussed in Babel you could chat to more than half the world's population. Actually, you could talk to another quarter of the world, who speak them as second languages. As he did in Lingo, Gaston Dorren delves deep into the linguistic oddities and extraordinary stories of these global tongues, tracing their origins and tracking their sometimes bloody rise to greatness. He listens to their distinctly un-English sounds and deciphers their bewildering array of scripts, presents the gems and gaps in their vocabularies and charts their inventive coinages and surprising loans. He explains the oddities of their grammars, which order their speakers' worldview but often appear bafflingly complex to outsiders.
Main title:
Babel : around the world in twenty languages / Gaston Dorren.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Profile Books, 2018.
Collation:
360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781781256404
Dewey class:
417.7
Language:
English
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BRN:
350701
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature | 417.7 DOR | Available |