The Tongue of Adam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tongue of Adam write by Abdelfattah Kilito. This book was released on 2016-11-22. The Tongue of Adam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A playful and erudite look at the origins of language In the beginning there was one language—one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. “These days, no one bothers to ask about the tongue of Adam. It is a naive question, vaguely embarrassing and irksome, like questions posed by children, which one can only answer rather stupidly.” So begins Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Tongue of Adam, a delightful series of lectures. With a Borgesian flair for riddles, stories, and subtle scholarly distinctions, Kilito presents an assortment of discussions related to Adam’s tongue, including translation, comparative religion, and lexicography: for example, how, from Babel onward, can we explain the plurality of language? Or can Adam’s poetry be judged aesthetically, the same as any other poem? Drawing from the commentators of the Koran to Walter Benjamin, from the esoteric speculations of Judaism to Herodotus, The Tongue of Adam is a nimble book about the mysterious rise of humankind’s multilingualism.
Adam's Tongue
Adam's Tongue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adam's Tongue write by Derek Bickerton. This book was released on 2009-03-17. Adam's Tongue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How language evolved has been called "the hardest problem in science." In Adam's Tongue, Derek Bickerton—long a leading authority in this field—shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom. Language is unique to humans, but it isn't the only thing that sets us apart from other species—our cognitive powers are qualitatively different. So could there be two separate discontinuities between humans and the rest of nature? No, says Bickerton; he shows how the mere possession of symbolic units—words—automatically opened a new and different cognitive universe, one that yielded novel innovations ranging from barbed arrowheads to the Apollo spacecraft. Written in Bickerton's lucid and irreverent style, this book is the first that thoroughly integrates the story of how language evolved with the story of how humans evolved. Sure to be controversial, it will make indispensable reading both for experts in the field and for every reader who has ever wondered how a species as remarkable as ours could have come into existence.
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"The Tongue of Adam." - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "The Tongue of Adam." write by Theodore A. Liebler. This book was released on 192?. "The Tongue of Adam." available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Clash of Images
The Clash of Images - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Clash of Images write by Abdelfattah Kilito. This book was released on 2018-04-02. The Clash of Images available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Clash of Images is a sweet, Borgesian mix of bildungsroman memoir, family history, short-story collection, fable, and literary criticism. Written in a graceful and charming style, Kilito’s story takes place in an unnamed coastal city of memories where a child experiences first-hand the cultural clash of text and image in a changing, modern society. It is a time when the old Arabic world of texts and oral traditions is making way for something new: the era of the image, the comic book, photo IDs, and the cinema. The stories form a kaleidoscopic memoir of growing up in two worlds, a brilliant mixture of cultural and family history. Here are tales of first kisses and first reads, Tintin and the Prophet Muhammad, fantasies of the Wild West, the inferno of the bathhouse, and the lost paradises of childhood. The Clash of Images is a celebration of the pleasures of storytelling, a magic lantern that delicately reveals how the world of books intimately connects with the world outside their pages.
The Adam-man Tongue
The Adam-man Tongue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Adam-man Tongue write by Edmund Shaftesbury. This book was released on 1903. The Adam-man Tongue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
