Ipad mini ebooks download Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language

Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language. David Shariatmadari

Don-t-Believe-a-Word-The.pdf
ISBN: 9781324004264 | 336 pages | 9 Mb

• Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language
• David Shariatmadari
• Page: 336
• Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
• ISBN: 9781324004264
• Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.

Download Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language

Ipad mini ebooks download Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language

Overview

A linguist’s entertaining and highly informed guide to what languages are and how they function. Think you know language? Think again. There are languages that change when your mother-in-law is present. The language you speak could make you more prone to accidents. Swear words are produced in a special part of your brain. Over the past few decades, we have reached new frontiers of linguistic knowledge. Linguists can now explain how and why language changes, describe its structures, and map its activity in the brain. But despite these advances, much of what people believe about language is based on folklore, instinct, or hearsay. We imagine a word’s origin is it’s “true” meaning, that foreign languages are full of “untranslatable” words, or that grammatical mistakes undermine English. In Don’t Believe A Word, linguist David Shariatmadari takes us on a mind-boggling journey through the science of language, urging us to abandon our prejudices in a bid to uncover the (far more interesting) truth about what we do with words. Exploding nine widely held myths about language while introducing us to some of the fundamental insights of modern linguistics, Shariatmadari is an energetic guide to the beauty and quirkiness of humanity’s greatest achievement.

Links:
Téléchargements de livres iPod gratuits Au coeur des extrêmes - Braver les quatre milieux les plus hostiles de la planète pour éprouver les capacités humaines d'adaptation par Christian Clot
It ebook download Serpent & Dove in English MOBI 9780062977106
Téléchargement de livres gratuitement sur ipad "Papa, viens me chercher !" (Litterature Francaise) 9791032907603 par Thierry Delcroix, Nina Delcroix
Google free audio books download No-Signal Area: A Novel ePub PDF CHM by Robert Perisic, Ellen Elias-Bursac 9781609809713
Descargas de libros electrónicos gratis para ipad 4 THIS IS GOING TO HURT: SECRET DIARIES OF A JUNIOR DOCTOR 9781509858613 (Spanish Edition)
Ebooks gratuits francais download Mon p'tit cahier sommeil iBook 9782263163067 par Auriane Hamon
Pdf ebooks downloads search The Faultless Blade
Download japanese ebook Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying On a Montgomery Family's Civil Rights Legacy