The Loom of Language
Author | : Frederick Bodmer |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780393300345 |
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Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages -- Teutonic, Romance, Greek -- helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a language as it is actually used in everyday life.