{"product_id":"9780674303461-a-myriad-of-tongues","title":"A Myriad of Tongues","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think\u003cbr\u003eExploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, space, color, odor, and taste is substantially influenced by language, so that basic interactions with the world vary greatly across peoples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning look at the relationship between the language we speak and our perception of such fundamentals of experience as time, space, color, and smells.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe tend to assume that all languages categorize ideas and objects similarly, reflecting our common human experience. But in fact many basic concepts are not universal. Speakers of different languages literally see and think about the world differently.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaleb Everett takes readers around the globe, explaining what linguistic diversity shows us about human culture. For instance, though we may think that everybody refers to time in spatial terms—in English, it “passes us by”—speakers of the Amazonian language Tupi Kawahib never do. In fact, Tupi Kawahib has no word for “time” at all. And while it has long been understood that languages categorize colors that speakers regularly encounter, evidence also suggests that the color words at our disposal affect how we actually perceive colors. Similarly, the terms available to us affect the range of smells we can identify.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy do some cultures talk anthropocentrically about things being to one’s “left” or “right,” while others use geocentric words like “east” and “west”? What is the connection between what we eat and the sounds we make? \u003ci\u003eA Myriad of Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e answers these and other questions, yielding profound insights into fundamentals of human communication and experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57760669761910,"sku":"9780674303461","price":16.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_40578469.jpg?v=1777301548","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780674303461-a-myriad-of-tongues","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}