"An exploration of the first words and last words of life, written by a linguistically-trained trade author"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Trained as a linguist and historian, Michael Erard has spent more than two decades sharing compelling stories about language, languages, and the people who use and study them. He is the author of two previous books, Um . . . Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean and Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners, which has been translated into eight languages. He is a researcher at the Centre for Language Studies at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and is training to become an end-of-life doula. Find out more at www.michaelerard.com.
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Contents Prelude. Into the Puckerbrush Introduction A List of Questions A Note on Sources Chapter 1. The Four Expectations Chapter 2. The Story of a First Word (or Why We Pay Attention to First Words at All) Chapter 3. The First First Word Chapter 4. The Truth about “Mama" Chapter 5. The Normal First Word Conclusion, Part 1. Ritual, Sincerity, and the First Word Interlude. A Year at the MPI Chapter 6. How Do We Really Communicate at the End of Our Lives? Chapter 7. William Osler and “The Study of the Act of Dying” Chapter 8. The Linguistic Powers of the Dying Chapter 9. Death Resists Chapter 10. Beyond Last Words Chapter 11. A Linguistics of Last Words Conclusion Epilogue. Back to the Puckerbrush Acknowledgements Endnotes Further Reading & Selected Sources
Contents Prelude. Into the Puckerbrush Introduction A List of Questions A Note on Sources Chapter 1. The Four Expectations Chapter 2. The Story of a First Word (or Why We Pay Attention to First Words at All) Chapter 3. The First First Word Chapter 4. The Truth about “Mama" Chapter 5. The Normal First Word Conclusion, Part 1. Ritual, Sincerity, and the First Word Interlude. A Year at the MPI Chapter 6. How Do We Really Communicate at the End of Our Lives? Chapter 7. William Osler and “The Study of the Act of Dying” Chapter 8. The Linguistic Powers of the Dying Chapter 9. Death Resists Chapter 10. Beyond Last Words Chapter 11. A Linguistics of Last Words Conclusion Epilogue. Back to the Puckerbrush Acknowledgements Endnotes Further Reading & Selected Sources
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