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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages - Hardcover

Dorren, Gaston

 
9780802128799: Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0802128793 ISBN 13: 9780802128799
Verlag: Grove Atlantic, Inc., 2018

Inhaltsangabe

  • Babel follows on from the highly praised Lingo, which sold over 11,000 copies and is backlisting in paperback. It was hailed by the Wall Street Journal as "a peppy advertisement for the rewards of having several languages in one's head" and by the Boston Globe: "as enlightening as it is entertaining." Babel will appeal to a similar audience of language lovers and armchair travelers.
  • Did you know more people speak Malay than French? Or that Javanese is among the world's top twenty languages, while Italian is not? Babel celebrates the quirks of the world's languages, including why Punjabi may, like Chinese, be a tonal language, though many of its speakers do not realize this, or how it's impossible for Turkish people today to understand books written in the early part of the twentieth century because of the rapid pace of language change.
  • Dorren is an authority on languages, with an ability to read in fifteen and speak six. He has an ideal profile to write this book and is a perfect interviewee on questions of vanishing linguistic diversity, how languages change our brains, and how we're connected (and separated) by the history of our languages. For Dorren's previous book, Lingo, he did interviews including with Rick Steves and we expect even more interest for this book.
  • Galley and buzz outreach to translators (including at the ALTA conference in November) and to language advocates and activists.
  • For fans of Is That A Fish In Your Ear by David Bellos, Between You and Me by Mary Norris (who reviewed Lingo for the New Yorker's In Brief), and The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox.
  • While Lingo focused on Europe, Babel presents a truly global look at language, including many languages spoken by heritage groups in the U.S.
  • With photos, charts, and other illustrations, a perfect gift book for language-lovers.

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    Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

    Gaston Dorren is a linguist, journalist, and polyglot. He speaks Dutch, Limburgish, English, German, French, and Spanish, and reads nine more languages. He is the author of Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages, as well as two books in Dutch and the app, The Language Lover's Guide to Europe. Dorren lives in the Netherlands.

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    When people speak Japanese, their gender matters a great deal. A good number of words and grammatical constructions are associated with either women or men. For starters, women are more likely to use slightly longer versions of words that make them—the words, and consequently the speakers—sound polite. Think of it as not only saying the refined word ‘luncheon’ instead of the more workaday ‘lunch’, but making the difference systematic by also saying ‘tableon’ instead of ‘table’ and ‘flowereon’ instead of ‘flower’. In Japanese, this politeness syllable is added not at the end, but at the front: hana ‘flower’ becomes ohana.

    Next, women and men will use different pronouns to refer to themselves: while watashi is a formal word for ‘I’ or ‘me’ that both genders can use, atashi is clearly a women’s word and ore, boku and oira are men’s. Both genders will use the word for ‘be’ differently: in a sentence like ‘this is a spider’, men will include da for ‘is’ (‘this da a spider’), whereas women will omit it (‘this a spider’). They will use different interjections: for example, ‘Hey, you’ translates as Ne, chotto for women, but as Oi chotto or yo chotto for men; both men and women can use a where English would have ‘oh’ (as in ‘Oh, how beautiful’), but only women may also choose ara or ma. Men may pronounce the diphthong /ai/ (rhyming with English lie) as /e/ (rhyming with lay), whereas it would be unladylike for a woman to do so.

    Speakers do not exactly break a hard-and-fast grammar rule when using elements normally used by the opposite gender, but they certainly break a social convention: they bend both a rule and their gender.

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    Verlag
    Grove Atlantic, Inc.
    Erscheinungsdatum
    2018
    Sprache
    Englisch
    ISBN 10 
    0802128793
    ISBN 13 
    9780802128799
    Einband
    Gebundene Ausgabe
    Anzahl der Seiten
    320
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