Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle. - Couverture souple

Everett, Daniel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1846680409 ISBN 13 : 9781846680403

Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahãs, 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.

Everett describes how he began to realise that his discoveries about the Pirahã 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. Everett's views are most recently discussed in Tom Wolfe's bestselling The Kingdom of Speech.

Adventure, personal enlightenment and the makings of a scientific revolution proceed together in this vivid, funny and moving book.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daniel Everett is Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University in Massachusetts. Previously, he was Chair of the department of languages, literatures and cultures at Illinois State University. He is the author of international bestseller Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Profile Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846680409
• ISBN 13: 9781846680403
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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