The Secret Life of Language: Discover the Origins of Global Communication
Language: English
Published by Firefly Books, 2018
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- Title
- The Secret Life of Language: Discover the Origins of Global Communication
- Author
- Pulleyn, Simon
- Publisher
- Firefly Books
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0228100925
- ISBN 13
- 9780228100928
About The Secret Life of Equations:
"Photographs, illustrations, and other visuals help maintain reader interest. There are also a number of cross-references that allow readers to move quickly between related ideas. This highly recommended book closes with a short, but complete, index."
-- American Reference Books Annual
Like its companion titles, The Secret Life of Language uses quirky illustrations, helpful diagrams and clear text to unlock the fascinating workings behind the development of the world's languages. Readers will gain insight into the extraordinary underlying stories and facts about the language (or languages) they speak, as well as those that they perhaps would like to learn.
Six chapters cover all of the world's language groups from their historic origins to today as well as the physical mechanics of speech.
- The anatomy of speech -- The history of communication; Evolution of the power of speech
- What makes up a language? -- Articulation; Phonetics revisited; Phonology; Morphology; Syntax; Lexicon
- Language families -- The Indo-European family; Other language families and proto-languages; The Romance languages as daughters of Latin; The Celtic languages; The Slavonic languages; The Semitic family; The Turkic languages; Languages in the Caucasus; The African languages; The languages of Polynesia; Languages of the Americas; Languages of South Asia; Chinese; Japanese
- Writing systems -- Includes the origins of writing; Cuneiform and hieroglyphs; Syllabaries; The dawn of the alphabet; Other systems of writing (Chinese, Japanese, Runes, Ogham); Also covers the problems of decipherment; Unsolved mysteries of decipherment
- Languages on the move -- International languages following religious groups; The languages of Judaism
- What next? -- Invented languages, like Klingon; The future of the human language.
Language is essential to us all -- spoken, heard, written, read -- no matter which we use. Today, cultures move and meld across the globe in waves of migration taking their languages with them. The Secret Life of Language is sure to pique the interest of all general readers, language learners and those curious about the future of language.
The Secret Life of... series unlocks the fascinating workings behind subjects such as mathematics, biology, linguistics, chemistry and genetics, to give readers a practical introduction and insights into the underlying stories and facts. Fully illustrated and packed with quirky illustrations and helpful diagrams, these books are sure to pique the curiosity of anyone who's ever thought, "I wonder how that works..."
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About the Author
Simon Pulleyn studied Latin and Ancient Greek at Oxford University, with a specialty in Indo-European Comparative Philology and General Linguistics. His PhD was on prayer in ancient Greek religion. He taught Classics at Oxford for almost a decade before taking up law, which he would come to teach.
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