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Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages

Door Gaston Dorren

Categorie
Taalkunde & Woordenboeken
Boeknummer
#338031-XC30
Titel
Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages
Auteur
Dorren, Gaston
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press
Jaar van uitgave
2015
ISBN10
0802124070
ISBN13
9780802124074
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, dust jacket, with b/w illustrations (including photographs), map on endpapers, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Whether you're a frequent visitor to Europe or just an armchair traveler, the surprising and extraordinary stories in Lingo will forever change the way you think about the continent, and may even make you want to learn a new language.

Lingo spins the reader on a whirlwind tour of sixty European languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and differences. Most European languages are descended from a single ancestor, a language not unlike Sanskrit known as Proto-Indo-European (or PIE for short), but the continent's ever-changing borders and cultures have given rise to a linguistic and cultural diversity that is too often forgotten in discussions of Europe as a political entity. Lingo takes us into today's remote mountain villages o... (Lees verder)f Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that one never use the word "you" in conversation, leading to tiptoeing questions of the form: "Would herr generaldirektör Rexed like a biscuit?"

Spanning six millenia and sixty languages in bite-size chapters, Lingo is a hilarious and highly edifying exploration of how Europe speaks.
Pagina's
303
Conditie
Goed — Tobacco smell.
Prijs
€ 8,00

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