bookmate game
en
Gaston Dorren

Babel

Obavesti me kada knjiga bude dodata
Da biste čitali ovu knjigu otpremite EPUB ili FB2 datoteku na Bookmate. Kako da otpremim knjigu?
  • Nataliaje citiralaпре 5 година
    But the primary creator and carrier of lingua francas has always been imperialism
  • Sofiaje citiralaпре 5 година
    People have different collective feelings about their languages: we find veneration, pride, protectiveness and sometimes indifference, but also, especially among second-language speakers, resignation and even loathing
  • Sofiaje citiralaпре 5 година
    dominant languages in themselves represent more linguistic, cultural and historical variety than is commonly realised
  • Nataliaje citiralaпре 5 година
    From an Islamic perspective, the Turks have now captured the big prize. But once again, they do not impose their language and culture upon the empire’s other peoples. On the contrary: this is when Ottoman Turkish, the empire’s elite and literary language, reaches its fullest hybrid magnificence, thanks to strong Arabic influence.
  • Thanh Lêje citiralaпре 5 година
    called into question
  • Thanh Lêje citiralaпре 5 година
    the entire linguistic system is founded upon the irrational principle that the sign [i.e. the word] is arbitrary’.
  • Nataliaje citiralaпре 5 година
    Much more common than the neutral or distant pronouns are pronouns that, in literal translation, designate all sorts of family relationships.
  • Sofiaje citiralaпре 5 година
    To quote an erudite British author of my acquaintance: ‘In English one can embark on a sentence with no very clear idea of the destination, but with German we find we can’t really improvise in that way. We have to have a clear notion of what we’re going to say before we try to say it, and we have to get the clauses in the right order.’
  • Sofiaje citiralaпре 5 година
    Unsurprisingly, all languages are different in the words they offer, the grammar they employ and the sounds they travel on. Their writing systems are not just alluringly varied in appearance, but also profoundly dissimilar in their functioning
  • Sofiaje citiralaпре 5 година
    The world’s biggest languages, which are the subject of this book, are causing the decline of hundreds, even thousands of smaller ones
fb2epub
Prevucite i otpustite datoteke (ne više od 5 odjednom)