Un'interpretazione persuasiva e splendidamente scritta di come le lingue siano in continua evoluzione. Una lettura avvincente sulla psicologia e l'antropologia umana, nonché sulla linguistica. ' ALEX BELLOS ' La lingua è la più grande invenzione dell'umanità, tranne, ovviamente, per il fatto che non è mai stata inventata'. Così inizia l'affascinante indagine di Guy Deutscher sull'evoluzione della lingua. Nessuno crede che il Senato romano si sia seduto un giorno per progettare il complesso sistema che è la grammatica latina, e pochi credono, oggigiorno, nella verità letterale della storia della Torre di Babele. Ma allora come sono arrivate a esistere così tante lingue, e di una progettazione così elaborata? Se abbiamo iniziato con espressioni rudimentali al livello di ''uomo lancia lancia'', come siamo finiti con grammatiche sofisticate, enormi vocabolari e sfumature di significato intricate? Basandosi su recenti, rivoluzionarie scoperte nella linguistica moderna, Deutscher espone le elusive forze della creazione all'opera nella comunicazione umana. Lungo il cammino, impariamo perché le fanciulle tedesche sono neutre mentre le rape tedesche sono femmine, perché abbiamo piedi e non piedi e come grandi cambiamenti nella pronuncia possano derivare dalla semplice pigrizia.'Potente ed emozionante' SPECTATOR 'Dovrebbe davvero essere letto da chiunque persista a lamentarsi che la lingua inglese sta andando a rotoli' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Sono rimasto incantato' AS Byatt, per GUARDIAN 'Libri dell'anno' 'Altamente originale. Intelligente e convincente. Questo libro allargherà la tua mente' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Affascinante' BOSTON GLOBE.
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Born in 1969, Guy Deutscher read Maths at Cambridge before doing his PhD in Linguistics. Formerly a Research Fellow in Historical Linguistics at St John's College, Cambridge, he is now at the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages in the University of Leiden. He lives in Amsterdam.
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