Don't Sleep, There are Snakes
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
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2008
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Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84668-030-4 (ISBN)
Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84668-030-4 (ISBN)
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Shows the meticulous steps by which the author gradually mastered the Piraha language. This book describes how the author began to realize that his discoveries about the Piraha language opened up a different way of understanding how language works in our minds and in our lives.
Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world. He describes how he began to realise that his discoveries about the Piraha language opened up a new way of understanding how language works in our minds and in our lives, and that this way was utterly at odds with Noam Chomsky's universally accepted linguistic theories. The perils of passionate academic opposition were then swiftly conjoined to those of the Amazon in a debate whose outcome has yet to be won.
Adventure, personal enlightenment and the makings of a scientific revolution proceed together in this vivid, funny and moving book.
Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world. He describes how he began to realise that his discoveries about the Piraha language opened up a new way of understanding how language works in our minds and in our lives, and that this way was utterly at odds with Noam Chomsky's universally accepted linguistic theories. The perils of passionate academic opposition were then swiftly conjoined to those of the Amazon in a debate whose outcome has yet to be won.
Adventure, personal enlightenment and the makings of a scientific revolution proceed together in this vivid, funny and moving book.
Daniel Everett was born in California. He lived for many years in the Amazon jungle and conducted research on over a dozen indigenous languages of Brazil. He has published on sound structure, grammar, meaning, culture and language. He has been the subject of endless controversy in academic circles and is currently Professor of Linguistics at Illinois State University.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.11.2008 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 494 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Südamerika | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84668-030-1 / 1846680301 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84668-030-4 / 9781846680304 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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