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Michael Erard Babel No More (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Babel No more : the Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
- Publication Name
- Babel No More
- Title
- Babel No More
- Subtitle
- The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1451628269
- EAN
- 9781451628265
- ISBN
- 9781451628265
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Genre
- Language Arts & Disciplines, History
- Topic
- Speech, World, Literacy, Linguistics / General
- Release Date
- 02/10/2012
- Release Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 10.4 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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A "fascinating" (The Economist) dive into the world of linguistics that is "part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual investigation...an entertaining, informative survey of some of the most fascinating polyglots of our time" (The New York Times Book Review).In Babel No More, Michael Erard, "a monolingual with benefits," sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical figures like the nineteenth-century Italian cardinal Joseph Mezzofanti, who was said to speak seventy-two languages, as well as those of living language-superlearners such as Alexander Arguelles, a modern-day polyglot who knows dozens of languages and shows Erard the tricks of the trade to give him a dark glimpse into the life of obsessive language acquisition. With his ambitious examination of what language is, where it lives in the brain, and the cultural implications of polyglots' pursuits, Erard explores the upper limits of our ability to learn and use languages and illuminates the intellectual potential in everyone. How do some people escape the curse of Babel--and what might the gods have demanded of them in return?
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Free Press
ISBN-10
1451628269
ISBN-13
9781451628265
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117162489
Product Key Features
Book Title
Babel No more : the Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Speech, World, Literacy, Linguistics / General
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
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"You'll be awed by the incredible characters in this eye-opening book." Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein, "In Babel No More , Michael Erard has written the first serious book about the people who master vast numbers of languages... [Erard] approaches his topic with both wonder and a healthy dash of scepticism ... repeatedly pepper[ing] his text with such questions, feeling his way through his story as a thoughtful observer, rather than banging about like an academic with a theory to defend or a pitchman with a technique to sell...fascinating." The Economist, " Babel No More is a thorough delight. People always have questions for linguists about learning new languages and being bilingual, unaware of the peculiar fact that modern linguistics has nothing to do with learning how to speak new languages. This book finally gives an informed and even addictive guide to why some people pick up new languages so easily and how maybe you can too." John McWhorter, Columbia University and New Republic Contributing Editor, "In this book, Michael Erard takes us on a captivating journey in search of hyperpolyglots those rare and unique individuals who have mastered six or more languages. Part biography, part detective story, Erard's spellbinding book offers us a window through which we may view the lives of these remarkable (and remarkably diverse) characters, telling their stories while trying to answer the fundamental question: how did they do it?" Claude Cartaginese, Editor, The Polyglot Project, "A fascinating study of the unusual ability to learn multiple languages. This opens up a new area of research in the study of giftedness." Ellen Winner, author of Gifted Children, Myths and Realities, "An intrepid and savvy linguistic explorer, Michael Erard sets out to find the world's masters of multiple languages. He discovers the best of them, and much more about their talents and brains, their motivation and habits, and their places in society. Babel No More brings the genius language learners to life. It will delight the enthusiasts who love the challenge of learning foreign languages, and will comfort the weary who dreaded facing Latin verb conjugations." Deborah Fallows, author of Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language, "Erard gets beneath the surface of the hyperpolyglot, piercing the myth of perfect competence, to show the actual landscape of motives, obstacles and satisfactions that texture the world of the long-distance language-learner. [They] are revealed as a tantalizing tribe, individually reticent and even charming, as they offer their incomprehensible fluency to the world at large." Nicholas Ostler, author of The Last Lingua Franca (2010), "A fine addition to our favorite books about language…Captivating andilluminating, Babel No More is as much anabsorbing piece of investigative voyeurism into superhuman feats as it is anintelligent invitation to visit the outer limits of our own cerebralpotential." The Atlantic Monthly, "Among the surprising qualities of Babel No More, MichaelErard's globe-trekking adventure in search of the world's virtuosos of languagelearning, is that a book dealing with language acquisition and polyglotlinguistics can be so gripping. But indeed it is part travelogue, partscience lesson, part intellectual investigation, it is an entertaining,informative survey of some of the most fascinating polyglots of our time." The New York Times Book Review
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Dewey Decimal
401/.93
Dewey Edition
23
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