The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language 豆 8.4分

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作者：John McWhorter

出版社：Harper Perennial

出版日期：2003-01

ISBN：9780060520854

文件格式： pdf

标签： 语言学 linguistics 语言多样性 语言 English language 非虚构类 非小说类

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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 perception, language is not immutable a...