I Saw the Dog

I Saw the Dog
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Publisher : Profile Books
Total Pages : 146
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ISBN-10 : 9781782833215
ISBN-13 : 1782833218
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Book Synopsis I Saw the Dog by : Alexandra Aikhenvald

Download or read book I Saw the Dog written by Alexandra Aikhenvald and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost infinitely varied: a French speaker can't conceive of a world that isn't split into un and une, male and female, while Estonians have only one word for both men and women: tema. In Dyirbal, an Australian language, things might be masculine, feminine, neuter - or edible vegetable. Every language tells us something about the people who use it. In I Saw the Dog, linguist Alexandra Aikhenvald takes us from the remote swamplands of Papua New Guinea to the university campuses of North America to illuminate the vital importance of names, the value of being able to say exactly what you mean, what language can tell us about what it means to be human - and what we lose when they disappear forever.


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