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Książka Linguistic Diversity Nettle

Linguistic Diversity

Autor: Nettle, Daniel (Research Fellow in Anthropology, Merton College, Oxford, and a member of the Human Biodiversity Project at the University of Cambridge)
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydawca: Oxford University Press
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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243.76 zł
There are some 6,500 different languages in the world, belonging to around 250 distinct families and...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Nettle, Daniel (Research Fellow in Anthropology, Merton College, Oxford, and a member of the Human Biodiversity Project at the University of Cambridge)
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
1999
strony
180
EAN
9780198238577
ISBN
0198238576
Enbook ID
04523795
Wydawca
Oxford University Press
Waga
300
Wymiary
234 x 158 x 10

Pełny opis

There are some 6,500 different languages in the world, belonging to around 250 distinct families and conforming to numerous grammatical types. This book explains why. Given that the biological mechanisms underlying language are the same in all normal human beings, would we not be a more successful species if we spoke one language? Daniel Nettle considers how this extraordinary and rich diversity arose, how it relates to the nature of language, cognition, and culture, and how it is linked with the main patterns of human geography and history. Human languages and language families are not distributed evenly: there are relatively few in Eurasia compared to the profusion found in Australasia, the Pacific, and the Americas. There is also a marked correlation between biodiversity and linguistic diversity. The author explains the processes by which this distribution evolved and changes still. To do so he returns to the earliest origins of language, reconstructing the processes of linguistic variation and diffusion that occurred when humans first filled the continents and, thousands of years later, turned to agriculture. He ends by examining the causes of linguistic mortality, and why the number of the world's languages may halve before 2100. Linguistic Diversity draws on work in anthropology, linguistics, geography, archaeology, and evolutionary science to provide a comprehensive account of the patterns of linguistic diversity. It is written in a clear, lively and accessible style, and will appeal broadly across the natural and human sciences, as well as to the informed general reader.

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