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He neatly summarizes a number of ongoing debates about how languages change and spread and where necessary shows intimate famil... Read More
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- This product had a total of 345 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 19 2021.
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Nevertheless its central thesis is too strong and from my point of view unsustainable it states something like a language charisma p
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This implies some secret life of languages as if there were languages and not their speakers
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In order to defend his main thesiswhich is that languages are not dialects with an army weinreich the author neglects political and above all economical facts
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Empires of the word is a mustread for anybody who wants to get a birds eyeview of the language history of the world
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You will get a chance to compare and analyze cultures developing their their own language history
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The author has a workable knowledge of many languages and this is quite obvious from the very beginning
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It appeals to my interest in ancient peoples and in language in general
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