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Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners

Autor Michael Erard
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 oct 2012
A fascinating ("The Economist") dive into the world of linguistics that is part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual investigation an entertaining, informative survey of some of the most fascinating polyglots of our time ("The New York Times Book Review").
In "Babel No More," Michael Erard, a monolingual with benefits, sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical figures like the nineteenth-century Italian cardinal Joseph Mezzofanti, who was said to speak seventy-two languages, as well as those of living language-superlearners such as Alexander Arguelles, a modern-day polyglot who knows dozens of languages and shows Erard the tricks of the trade to give him a dark glimpse into the life of obsessive language acquisition.
With his ambitious examination of what language is, where it lives in the brain, and the cultural implications of polyglots pursuits, Erard explores the upper limits of our ability to learn and use languages and illuminates the intellectual potential in everyone. How do some people escape the curse of Babel and what might the gods have demanded of them in return?"
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ISBN-13: 9781451628265
ISBN-10: 1451628269
Pagini: 306
Dimensiuni: 140 x 211 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Free Press

Notă biografică

Michael Erard has graduate degrees in linguistics and rhetoric from the University of Texas at Austin. He’s written about language, linguists, and linguistics for Wired, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many other publications and is a contributing writer for The Texas Observer and Design Observer. He is the author of Um…: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean.