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First book of 2008! Full title: The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention.
This book was so much fun!! It's about how language has evolved. By looking at the earliest sources of written language, and examining the processes by which language changes in the present, Deutscher creates a theory about how language might have evolved in the first place. The book gets more into technical linguistics, and therefore more challenging, as it goes on, but for the most part I could stay with it. It was a really fun book if you like languages and linguistics, but a book to avoid like plague if you don't. I really liked it, and I strongly recommend it to Heather.
This book was so much fun!! It's about how language has evolved. By looking at the earliest sources of written language, and examining the processes by which language changes in the present, Deutscher creates a theory about how language might have evolved in the first place. The book gets more into technical linguistics, and therefore more challenging, as it goes on, but for the most part I could stay with it. It was a really fun book if you like languages and linguistics, but a book to avoid like plague if you don't. I really liked it, and I strongly recommend it to Heather.
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Date: 2008-01-11 11:15 pm (UTC)From: