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Linguaphile: 一生的语言之爱

Julie Sedivy | 2024 | ISBN: 0374601836 | English | 336 pages | ePUB | 1 MB

A celebration of the beauty and mystery of language and how it shapes our lives, our loves, and our world.

If there is one feature that defines the human condition, it is language: written, spoken, signed, understood, and misunderstood, in all its infinite glory. In this ingenious, lyrical exploration, Julie Sedivy draws on years of experience in the lab and a lifetime of linguistic love to bring the discoveries of linguistics home, to the place language itself lives: within the yearnings of the human heart and amid the complex social bonds that it makes possible.

Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love follows the path that language takes through a human life―from an infant’s first attempts at sense-making to the vulnerabilities and losses that accompany aging. As Sedivy shows, however, language and life are inextricable, and here she offers them together: a childish misunderstanding of her mother’s meaning reveals the difficulty of relating to other minds; frustration with “professional” communication styles exposes the labyrinth of standards that define success; the first signs of hearing loss lead to a meditation on society’s discomfort with physical and mental limitations.

Part memoir, part scientific exploration, and part cultural commentary, this book epitomizes the thrills of a life steeped in the aesthetic delights of language and the joys of its scientific scrutiny.


庆祝语言的美与神秘,以及它如何塑造我们的生活、爱情和世界。 人类存在的一个核心特征就是语言:书面语、口语、手语、理解中的误解,在其无尽荣耀中存在。在这部巧妙而诗意的探索中,朱莉·西迪维结合实验室多年的经验和个人一生对语言的喜爱,将语言学的研究成果带回家,到语言本身所栖身的地方——人类心灵的渴望以及它所能产生的复杂社会联系之中。 语言爱好者:一生命运的语言之爱,跟随语言在人类生活中的轨迹——从婴儿最初的求知尝试到衰老带来的脆弱与失去。然而,西迪维展示了语言和生活的不可分割性,并将它们融为一体:一个对母亲意思的误解揭示了与他人心灵沟通的困难;对“专业”交流风格的挫败感暴露了定义成功的复杂标准;听觉减退的第一个迹象引发了关于社会对身体和精神限制不适的话题。 这部书既是个人回忆录,也是科学研究之旅,同时还是文化评论,它完美地概括了在语言美的美学享受中生活带来的激情与科学观察所带来的乐趣。
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