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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.
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 fem
Bestseller del New York Times. BIENVENIDOS AL LADO OSCURO DE ÉRASE UNA VEZ Estoy seguro de que puedo contar esta historia. También estoy seguro de que nadie se la creerá. Eso me da igual. Me basta con contarla. Para mí --y está claro que para muchos escritores, no solo los novatos como yo--, el prob
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Norman Kemmer purchased this copy of Gaboon Trahan's Cajun Rules in the late 1960s as he first entered the sport of Dog Fighting. We were told by Floyd B. that Trahan wrote this set of rules in 1954. All of my life men have said, We are going by the Cajun Rules, but truly few of them knew what they
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'A striking and highly enjoyable debut' SOPHIE HANNAHYasmin would give anything to have a friend . . .And do anything to keep one. The first time I saw you, you were standing at the far end of the playing field. You were looking down at your brown straggly dog, but then you looked up, your mouth goi
