TY  - GEN
T1  - Four words for friends : why using more than one language matters now more than ever
A1  - Kohn, Marek
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1088407639
AB  - In a world that has English as its global language and rapidly advancing translation technology, it's easy to assume that the need to use more than one language will diminish-but Marek Kohn argues that plural language use is more important than ever. In a divided world, it helps us to understand ourselves and others better, to live together better, and to make the most of our various cultures. Kohn, whom the Guardian has called "one of the best science writers we have," brings together perspectives from psychology, evolutionary thought, politics, literature, and everyday experience. He explores how people acquire languages; how they lose them; how they can regain them; how different languages may affect people's perceptions, their senses of self, and their relationships with each other; and how to resolve the fundamental contradiction of languages, that they exist as much to prevent communication as to make it happen
OP  - 250
CN  - P40 .K64 2019eb
SN  - 9780300245141
SN  - 0300245149
SN  - 9780300231083
SN  - 0300231083
KW  - Sociolinguistics.
KW  - Bilingualism.
KW  - Sociolinguistique.
KW  - sociolinguistics.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Cultural Policy.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Popular Culture.
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES : Linguistics : General.
KW  - Bilingualism
KW  - Sociolinguistics
ER  -