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James Gordon Finlayson • Habermas: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
It is not insignificant that the English language is 70 percent nouns, while Potawatomi is 70 percent verbs.
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
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Marjorie Kelly • Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution
the tenuous relationship between language and reality; details the array of effects language has on our memory, attention, and reasoning; and describes how these varied effects power narratives and storytelling as well as political spin and conspiracy theories. Why should we care what language is good for? Enfield, who has spent twenty years at the
... See moreN. J. Enfield • Language vs. Reality
But people who are moderately uncertain of their economic future, who live in less-productive territories and have to rely on multiple sources of income (like the Kachin in Burma or most middle-class families with two income earners), maintain numerous weak ties with a wider variety of people. They often learn two or more languages or dialects, bec
... See moreDavid W. Anthony • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Politeness as modeled by the
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
Documentary interchangeability, which reinforced human interchangeability, was fostered by the development of a standardized language-of-state.