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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Language is a structured communication system built on productivity and structural duality.
Chapter 3: Language is chiefly communicated through spoken and written forms.
Chapter 4: We acquire core language rules early in life and refine them continuously.
Chapter 5: From its very beginning, language has ceaselessly evolved over time.
Chapter 6: Language families are powerful tools that illuminate humanity’s earliest history.
Chapter 7: Being multilingual is the typical human experience.
Chapter 8: Threatened languages can be revived when communities unite behind them.
Description
How Language Works (2005) unlocks the secrets of how and why we communicate. Language is one of the defining characteristics that makes humans human. But because it’s such a fundamental concept, we rarely take the time to think about where it comes from or how it evolves. These blinks examine the historical and personal origins of language and the many different ways it affects our daily lives.
Who Should Listen
- Language lovers curious to learn how language works
- Those who appreciate the vast diversity of languages in the world
- People concerned about endangered or extinct languages