You might be surprised by my answer to Question 3. You might
think: David Crystal has been studying the English language for
years and years. Why should he ever need to look anything up in a
dictionary? Surely he knows all there is to know about words?
I wish I did! But check back to the end of Chapter 3, when I
asked ‘How many words do we know?’ For me, the answer is around
100,000. (查看原文)
整本书基本不使用大词、难词、长句、难句,适合国内初三或高一学生读,对提高英语水平大有帮助,大人也可以读此书当作消遣。 写作风格风趣幽默,逻辑清晰,比此系列另外一本:A little history of philosophy要好得多,但在语言优美方面比:A little history of the world要差些。
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C14 The languages of the world. 1. The essential difference between a dialect or a language is that When people speak different languages, they don’t understand each other (A language is made up of many dialects, and the people who speak those dialects gen...
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大家好,我是超严肃的前线观察员小C,今天要给大家带来的情报大致上是关于这本戴维.克里斯特尔的《语言小书(A Little Book of Language)》的。 首先,插播一条广。。。哦不是,是温馨提示,那就是这本书的作者是一名英国人,所以是基于一名英语使用者的角度来讲语言的,书中绝...
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0 有用 一样的耳朵 2020-02-12 19:58:08
比较浅的语言学书籍/可惜有些英文的例子没有列出原文,中文译文不是很典型/中规中矩,写得比较平实,不算有趣
0 有用 在摸鱼 2019-08-16 13:30:54
bof
1 有用 三周華不注 2019-01-11 17:22:33
我看了此书最大的感想是→婴儿学语好有趣。
0 有用 Lyre 2022-02-01 15:22:02
写的挺简单的,而且很有趣味性!适合学生时代读
18 有用 张流影 2018-12-23 19:21:26
倒不是说书不好,只是本以为会是语言学的入门书籍,结果就让离老远看了眼大门的模样。 总的来说书本身简单易读,作为引起语言学兴趣的读物来说也挺好的。