Native Tongues
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Language is far more than a tool for communication — it is the living architecture of human thought, culture, and identity, and Native Tongues by Charles Berlitz stands as one of the most captivating guides ever written to the world's extraordinary linguistic diversity. Drawing on a lifetime of immersion in languages and cultures, Berlitz presents a richly entertaining and deeply informative tour through the quirks, curiosities, and hidden logic of hundreds of the world's languages, illuminating why people speak the way they do and what it reveals about who they are. As the grandson of the founder of the legendary Berlitz language schools and a polyglot of rare distinction, Charles Berlitz writes with an authority that is both scholarly and wonderfully accessible, weaving together etymology, history, and cultural anecdote into a seamless narrative. Native Tongues argues persuasively that to understand a language is to understand a civilisation — its humour, its fears, its worldview — leaving the reader with an insatiable curiosity to know just how many ways there are to say what we mean.
Author: Charles Berlitz
Format: Hardback
Genre: Reference & language
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Language is far more than a tool for communication — it is the living architecture of human thought, culture, and identity, and Native Tongues by Charles Berlitz stands as one of the most captivating guides ever written to the world's extraordinary linguistic diversity. Drawing on a lifetime of immersion in languages and cultures, Berlitz presents a richly entertaining and deeply informative tour through the quirks, curiosities, and hidden logic of hundreds of the world's languages, illuminating why people speak the way they do and what it reveals about who they are. As the grandson of the founder of the legendary Berlitz language schools and a polyglot of rare distinction, Charles Berlitz writes with an authority that is both scholarly and wonderfully accessible, weaving together etymology, history, and cultural anecdote into a seamless narrative. Native Tongues argues persuasively that to understand a language is to understand a civilisation — its humour, its fears, its worldview — leaving the reader with an insatiable curiosity to know just how many ways there are to say what we mean.