《The Power of Babel》是2003年1月1日HarperCollins US出版的圖書，作者是JohnMcwhorter（約翰·麥克沃特）。
基本介紹
- 中文名：The Power of Babel
- 作者：JohnMcwhorter（約翰·麥克沃特）
- 出版社：HarperCollins US
- ISBN：9780060520854
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago.While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, linguistics professor John McWhorter reminds us of the variety within the species that speaks them, and argues that, contrary to popular perception, language is not immutable and hidebound, but a living, dynamic entity that adapts itself to an ever-changing human environment.
Full of humor and imaginative insight, The Power of Babel draws its illustrative examples from languages around the world, including pidgins, Creoles, and nonstandard dialects.
作者簡介
John McWhorter, associate professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of The Word on the Street. He lives in Oakland, California.
