La lingua colora il mondo

This is a fascinating book about how culture shapes language, and how language shapes our view of reality. Guy Deutscher is a linguist, and he separates out in some detail, the facts of this subject from fiction. Because, there is a lot of "fiction". Much of what we have heard about how language shap Leggi tutto

يبدو أن العلاقة بين العقل و اللغة لا تنقضي عجائبها... و لا شفاء من مسها... فبعد التساؤل عن أيهما يتحكم بالآخر العقل باللغة أم اللغة بالعقل، الذي استوطنني مذ قراءتي في كتاب فلسفة المتكلمين ... قفز سؤال آخر من جنسه لكن أكثر فرادة و اقترابا من إمكانية المعرفة لإمكانية المقارنة و التجريب، هل تتغير طريقة Leggi tutto

I suppose I hold linguists to a higher standard than civilians regarding their word choice and articulation of ideas. After all, if there's one category of people who should know about the power of words, it's this one. Which is why I'm so disappointed by this book. The book is called Through the Lan Leggi tutto

The first foreign language I learned to complete fluency was German - after five years of high school German I spent a year at a German boys' boarding school. At the end of that year I was completely fluent, but noticed an odd phenomenon, that I felt like a slightly different person when I spoke Ger Leggi tutto

فإن تكرمتم" يا أيها القراء اللاحقون بنا أن تنظروا للأسفل باتجاهنا من قمة شموخكم، فتذكروا أنكم قد وصلتم إلى تلك القمة بالتسلق على ظهور مجهوداتنا"هكذا ينهي دويتشر كتابه العظيم جدًا بكل تواضع،كتبت ملاحظات تلخص ما أورده دويتشر في بعض النقاط التي أراها مهمة وسأنقلها هنا وعذرًا على العامية*لو اللغة مرآة ل Leggi tutto

The sciences are without a doubt my weakest reads. Try as I might, I am at times unable to take all the information supplied in as the brain does not sponge the info up as I would like. Be that as it may, popular science books such as this have the occasion to bring some semblance of wow moments to