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Languages Are Good For Us (Paperback)
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Languages Are Good For Us (Paperback)
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Loot Price R257
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A celebration of the huge linguistic diversity that is open to all
of us at birth, and that has inspired and fascinated humans since
the invention of speech This book opens with the first sounds a
child hears in their mother's womb and their capacity for quickly
learning more than one language. Hardach explores how this capacity
has always been a necessary and normal aspect of human behaviour,
from the earliest evidence of writing in different languages on
Mesopotamian clay tablets to the role of trade in transmitting
words across cultures and continents through families of
multilingual merchants. She takes us into the 'book cemeteries' of
medieval synagogues; describes the riddles of hieroglyphics and
cuneiform, and the long struggle to decipher them; discovers the
enigmatic lost language of Cypro-Minoan Britain; and reminds us, in
an era of resurgent nationalism, that in the British Isles many
languages have mingled in fruitful and fascinating ways. This is a
book about languages and the people who love them. It is about the
strange and wonderful ways in which humans have used languages
since the days of the earliest clay records. About the linguistic
threads that connect us all. Above all, it is about pleasure.
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