The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
Autor Bill Brysonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 oct 2001
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language.
From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can’t), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world’s largest growth industries.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0380715430
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Ediția:Reissue
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția William Morrow Paperbacks
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With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries.
Notă biografică
Bill Bryson's bestselling books include One Summer, A Short History of Nearly Everything, At Home, A Walk in the Woods, Neither Here nor There, Made in America, and The Mother Tongue. He lives in England with his wife.
Descriere
“Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles Times
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language.
From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can’t), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world’s largest growth industries.
Recenzii
The sort of linguistics I like, anecdotal, full of revelations, and with not one dull paragraph
A gold mine of language-anecdote, information, curiosity. A suprise on every page... enthralling
Delightful, amusing and provoking... A joyful celebration of our wonderful language, which is packed with curiosities and enlightenment on every page
A delightful survey - though with its good humour, wealth of anecdote, and boyish enthusiasm, "romp" would be a better word.