EAN: 9781789543995

LANGUAGES ARE GOOD FOR US - SOPHIE HARDACH TASC...

This is a book about languages and the people who love them. Sophie Hardach is here to guide us
through the strange and wonderful ways that humans have used languages throughout history. She
takes us from the earliest Mesopotamian clay tablets and the 'book cemeteries' of medieval
synagogues to the first sounds a child hears in their mother's womb and their incredible
capacity for language learning. Along the way  Hardach explores the role of trade in
transmitting words across cultures and untangles riddles of hieroglyphics  cuneiform and the
ancient scripts of Crete and Cyprus. This is a book about languages  the people who love them
and the linguistic threads that connect us all. 'Impeccably researched and engagingly
presented... Sophie Hardach tells wonderful stories about words that have travelled vast
distances in space and time to make English what it is' David Bellos  author of Is That a Fish
in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything

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