基本信息·出版社：Harper Perennial ·页码：640 页 ·出版日期：2006年07月 ·ISBN：0060935723 ·International Standard Book Number：0060935723 · ...
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基本信息·出版社：Harper Perennial
·页码：640 页
·出版日期：2006年07月
·ISBN：0060935723
·International Standard Book Number：0060935723
·条形码：9780060935726
·EAN：9780060935726
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions to the engaging self-regard of Greek and to the struggles that gave birth to the languages of modern Europe, these epic achievements and more are brilliantly explored, as are the fascinating failures of once "universal" languages. A splendid, authoritative, and remarkable work, it demonstrates how the language history of the world eloquently reveals the real character of our planet's diverse peoples and prepares us for a linguistic future full of surprises.
作者简介 A scholar with a working knowledge of twenty-six languages, Nicholas Ostler has degrees from Oxford University in Greek, Latin, philosophy, and economics, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from MIT, where he studied under Noam Chomsky. He lives in Bath, England.
媒体推荐 "Revolutionary... Executed with a giddying depth of scholarship, yet the detail is never too thick to swamp the general reader." (Boston magazine )
"[A] monumental new book... Ostler furnishes many fresh insights, useful historical anecdotes and charming linguistic oddities." (Chicago Tribune )
"Delicious! Ostler's book shows how certain lucky languages joined humankind in its spread across the world." (John McWhorter )
"[A] wide-ranging history of the world's languages... [Ostler] brilliantly raises questions and supplies answers or theories." (Washington Post )
"A story of dramatic reversals and puzzling paradoxes. A rich... text with many piercing observations and startling comparisons." (Los Angeles Times Book Review )
"What an extraordinary odyssey the author of this superb work embarked upon." (Literary Review )
"True scholarship. A marvelous book, learned and instructive." (National Review )
"Enlightening . . . Always challenging, always instructive--at times, even startling or revolutionary." (Kirkus Reviews )
"A work of immense erudition." (Christian Science Monitor )
"Covers more rambunctious territory than any other single volume I'm aware of...A wonderful ear for the project's poetry." (John Leonard, Harper's Magazine )
