Glenn Dixon

Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth

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Glenn Dixon has been attacked by wild dogs in the mountains of Spain. Hes heard jaguars roar in the jungles of Guatemala. And once, in the calm blue waters above a coral reef off Belize, a shark veered dangerously toward him.Humans, of course, are even more dangerous. We tend to section off our lands with borders and guns and barbed wire. But these are only surface markers. In reality we claim our territory with a much more powerful and ancient tool. We mark our place in the world, and even ourselves, with language.As one philosopher said, languages are the Houses of Being. After doing graduate work in linguistics, Dixon wanted to visit these… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-55488-433-9
EAN: 9781554884339
Produktnummer: 5011150
Verlag: Dundurn Pr Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 350 S.
Masse: H21.5 cm x B14.1 cm x D2.7 cm 548 g
Gewicht: 548

Über den Autor

Glenn Dixon has published travel articles in major publications such as National Geographic, the New York Post, The Walrus, the Globe and Mail, and Psychology Today. An expert on language with an M.A. in socio-linguistics, he is currently a language consultant with the Calgary Board of Education. He lives in Calgary.