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The Rise and Fall of Languages Copertina flessibile – 12 gennaio 2008

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This book puts forward a different approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of the 100,000 or more years that humans have had language, states of equilibrium have existed during which linguistic features diffused across the languages in a given area so that they gradually converged on a common prototype. From time to time, the state of equilibrium would be punctuated, with expansion and split of peoples and of languages, most recently, as a result of European colonisation and the globalisation of communication which are likely to result in the extinction, within the next hundred years, of 90% of the languages currently spoken. Professor Dixon suggests that every linguist should assume a responsibility for documenting some of these languages before they disappear.
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    0521626544
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    978-0521626545
  3. Editore
    Cambridge University Press
  4. Data di pubblicazione
    12 gennaio 2008
  5. Lingua
    Inglese
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    12.7 x 1.12 x 20.32 cm
  7. Lunghezza stampa
    176 pagine
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'I recommend this publication be read by all linguists no matter what their field of interests or specialization are. D's style is witty and to the point, but more relevantly, his previous achievements qualify him to serve as the ideal spokesman on these most significant and sensitive issues, as linguistics enters the new millennium.' Alan S. Kaye, California State University, Fullerton

'It is a work which anyone interested in the prehistory of languages will wish to read. I predict that it will have a significant and healthy influence upon the development of research in this area and in historical linguistics as a whole.' Cambridge Archaeological Journal

'Certainly the most refreshing and stimulating work in the field of historical linguistics I have had the pleasure of reading.' Colin Renfrew, Cambridge Archaeology

'Ground-breaking work in the true sense of the term.' Robert Orr, Diachronica

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A different approach to the theories on language evolution and change.

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  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press (12 gennaio 2008)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Copertina flessibile ‏ : ‎ 176 pagine
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521626544
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521626545
  • Peso articolo ‏ : ‎ 220 g
  • Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.12 x 20.32 cm
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Joanna S.
5,0 su 5 stelle Used book in perfect condition
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I was pleasantly surprised with the condition of this used book. It was like new!
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K. Urfer
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exactly what I expected
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Tonton Jacques
2,0 su 5 stelle Pas trop touffu, pour une fois.
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On n'apprend pas grand-chose en lisant ce livre, certes lisible et pas désagréable. Dixon (linguiste australien né en 1939, célèbre notamment pour sa description du Dyirbal, dès 1972) y développe ses propres idées sur l'évolution des langues : il conteste que le modèle arborescent adapté aux langues indo-européennes soit valable universellement (il envisage les possibilités de convergence de langues partageant une même zone géographique), propose une évolution par périodes alternées d'équilibre et de changements rapides, voue aux gémonies les "nostratiques" et les linguistes théoriciens en chambre... Certes, tout cela est intéressant, mais manque à peu près autant de preuves que les thèses de ses adversaires, et pour cause, puisqu'il envisage l'évolution du langage sur 100.000 ans ou plus... Il ne semble pas non plus se rendre compte qu'il est probablement aussi influencé par l'environnement australien (cas linguistique bien particulier) que les indo-européanistes le sont par leur propre environnement.

Les données concrètes sont ici assez clairsemées (quoique intéressantes lorsqu'elles existent), les thèses sont vagues et surtout présentées de façon bien répétitive. Ce livre peut servir de point de départ à une réflexion générale du lecteur, mais dans l'ensemble, il faut bien reconnaître que, comme le dit l'auteur lui-même, de tout cela nous ne savons rien ou à peu près, et qu'on peut donc bien se livrer à toutes les élucubrations que l'on veut. Dixon conclut en adjurant les vrais linguistes (ceux "de terrain") de documenter au maximum les langues qui ne sont pas encore totalement éteintes, avant qu'il ne soit trop tard, et en expliquant pourquoi (mais on le savait déjà). On repose ce livre en pensant qu'il aurait pu dire la même chose dans un article de dix ou vingt pages : là, il y en a plus de 150.
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Recensito nel Regno Unito il 10 ottobre 2018
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I'm not sure who this book is aimed at, exactly. It seems mostly pitched at interested non-specialists; they should be aware that Dixon has some views which are far from generally accepted, and this book is largely propaganda for them. It's not a good book for someone with little background in the field to start with. Specialists are likely to be taken aback by a remarkably high ratio of assertion to demonstration and evidence. Where it trespassed on areas I know about there were surprisingly many statements that are not controversial but simply factually wrong; there's a lot of carelessness.

The book rambles quite a lot, and could perhaps have done with some vigorous editing.
It is also somewhat steeply priced for what is really just a long essay. It's a potboiler, in a nutshell; Dixon himself has produced much more substantial presentations of his general linguistic ideas than this.
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Crno Srce
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Dixon has a clear writing style and is easy to read. The content of the book is definitely targeted at those with at least a passing knowledge of linguistic theory. There are lots of interesting little tidbits - references to fieldwork the author has undertaken himself, as well as references to work that's going on around the world. However, the work tries to cover its title "The Rise and Fall of Languages" from a few different directions, with quite a lot of repetition. The author even admits at one stage that this work is really only a prelude to a forthcoming work of his own.

The main topic of is how languages evolve, and how this limits how far back in the past linguistics will ever be able to peer. This is the most interesting topic that the work covers, and should have really been its only focus. To be fair, it is by far the major one, but I felt like I needed to see more examples, or a model of language evolution, or something to back it up. To me, his theory of "punctuated equilibrium of language evolution" - which simply put means that sometimes languages split and develop separately, and sometimes they come together and borrow from each other, the former being the major model used in linguistics and to which some linguists try to fit every language in the world. Basically, the author makes the point that some information is lost/blurred over significant periods of time and it just can't be reconstructed. Although I feel I understand what the author is trying to get at, the argumentation seems to largely consist of somewhat common sense assertions repeated several times. However, there is enough information in there for this to be what the author intended - a launching point for the field to expand into and study in more detail.

The author's discussion of the origin of language itself left me somewhat cold - this section just didn't really "do it" for me. There is no real information here other than "perhaps a few words were added at a time, with a few grammatical features". Actually, if I recall correctly, he may have contradicted himself on this point by saying the exact opposite a few pages earlier by saying that it would all have needed to have happened very quickly. In a way I think his assumption is that language belongs to thoroughly modern humans and no modern humans have a truly primitive form of language. If you don't start with this assumption though, the picture could look quite different. It is only a minor topic in the book. For a thorough and, I feel, more illuminating look at this topic, I recommend Deacon's "The Symbolic Species: The co-evolution of Language and the Brain".

I do hope to see more on this theory from Dixon himself one day.

Dixon also passionately makes the case for recording the languages we have left on earth. I totally agree with him that if the world doesn't thoroughly document the linguistic and cultural situation of all that we have now, future generations will curse us. How many linguists, archaeologists or indeed many other kinds of scientists, wish now that early explorers had done much more recording and documenting, and much less shooting? We can't have that time back, but we can at least bequeath a different legacy to future generations.

Dixon is quite grim on the prospects of completely stopping language death. I'm more hopeful - I believe that government supported full bilingualism can save languages as well as integrating the youth from disadvantaged communities into the broader economic community, but Dixon has a lot more first-hand experience so he is probably right.

This book is only a light read to a thought provoking topic. It serves the linguistics community as a guide for new players to steer clear of those who think that statistics can recover lost information in any accurate fashion, and that they can reconstruct any stage of past language from current ones. One day we might hear more on this subject from Dixon and others.
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