A Myriad of Tongues How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think by Caleb Everett
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Title: A Myriad of Tongues
Author: Caleb Everett
Year: N/A
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A sweeping exploration of the relationship between the language we speak and our perception of such fundamentals of experience as time, space, color, and smells.
We tend to assume that all languages categorize ideas and objects similarly, reflecting our common human experience. But this isn't the case. When we look closely, we find that many basic concepts are not universal, and that speakers of different languages literally see and think about the world differently.
Caleb Everett takes readers around the globe, explaining what linguistic diversity tells us about human culture, overturning conventional wisdom along the way. For instance, though it may seem that everybody refers to time in spatial terms—in English, for example, we speak of time "passing us by"—speakers of the Amazonian language Tupi Kawahib never do. In fact, Tupi Kawahib has no word for "time" at all. And while it has long been understood that languages categorize colors based on those...
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A sweeping exploration of the relationship between the language we speak and our perception of such fundamentals of experience as time, space, color, and smells.
We tend to assume that all languages categorize ideas and objects similarly, reflecting our common human experience. But this isn't the case. When we look closely, we find that many basic concepts are not universal, and that speakers of different languages literally see and think about the world differently.
Caleb Everett takes readers around the globe, explaining what linguistic diversity tells us about human culture, overturning conventional wisdom along the way. For instance, though it may seem that everybody refers to time in spatial terms—in English, for example, we speak of time "passing us by"—speakers of the Amazonian language Tupi Kawahib never do. In fact, Tupi Kawahib has no word for "time" at all. And while it has long been understood that languages categorize colors based on those...
DOWNLOAD:
https://rapidgator.net/file/22a68caef8612edb43df7e8ea3b48abc/A_Myriad_of_Tongues__How_Languages_Reveal_Differences_in_How_We_Think_by_Caleb_Everett_.rar
https://k2s.cc/file/528d24ab67ddd/A_Myriad_of_Tongues__How_Languages_Reveal_Differences_in_How_We_Think_by_Caleb_Everett_.rar
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