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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language

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 | #40952 in Books |  Harper Perennial |  2003-01 |  2003-01-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.79 x5.31l,.58 | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A Very Creative Writer!|By The Old Prof|This book is by a very creative author. His creativity shows up in the sometimes “tongue-in-cheek” remarks he might make throughout. The title to his book “The Power of Babel” is a word-play based upon the biblical “Tower of Babel.” But McWhorter’s creation is not a listing of all the world&rsq|From Library Journal|Starting with the well-known model of relationships among languages as a family tree, McWhorter (linguistics, Berkeley) fleshes out and refines this model as he narrates development of language. He explores five main ways that languages c

There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, linguistics professor John McWhorter reminds us of the variety within the species that speaks them, and argues that, contrary to popular perception, language is not immutable and hidebound, but a living, dynamic entity that adapts itself to an ever-changing human en...

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