"An exploration of the first words and last words of life, written by a linguistically-trained trade author"--Provided by publisher.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
USA
Verlagsgruppe
Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
Illustrationen
Maße
Höhe: 233 mm
Breite: 155 mm
Dicke: 34 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-262-04942-9 (9780262049429)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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.
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
