Pocket • 2006 • Engelsk

Empires of the Word A Language History of the World

Name: Empires of the Word A Language History of the World
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Av Nicholas Ostler

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An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together, and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. Yet the history of the world's great languages has rarely been examined. 'Empires of the Wo...Vis mer

Psykolingvistikk og kognitiv lingvistikk

Paleografi (skrifthistorie)

Skriftsystem, alfabet

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9780007118717

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Harper Perennial

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2006

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Engelsk

Originaltittel

Empires of the Word A Language History of the World

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Pocket

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