{"product_id":"the-geography-of-words-vocabulary-and-meaning-in-the-worlds-languages-paperback-9781108795012","title":"The Geography of Words; Vocabulary and Meaning in the World's Languages (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108795012","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Geography of Words\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eVocabulary and Meaning in the World's Languages\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn engaging celebration of global linguistic diversity, with plenty of fascinating cases of cross-linguistic variation in each chapter.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDanko Sipka (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108795012, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 December 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.4 x 1.5 cm, 0.4 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… Sipka adopts a playful tone and sprinkles the text with puns, wry comments, and humorous illustrations … [He] has achieved his goal and more: a book for both general readers and linguistics instructors.' Donald R. Riccomini, Society for Technical Communication\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eLanguages around the world organize their lexicons, or vocabularies, in a myriad of different ways. This book is a celebration of global linguistic diversity, bringing together fascinating cases from a wide range of languages to explore how and why this lexical variation occurs. Each of the thirty-six short chapters shows how different culturally-specific words, relating to a range of phenomena such as  kinship, colour, space, time, objects, smells, and animals, vary across languages and geographical locations. It also explains the mechanisms of development in vocabularies, showing why this variation occurs, and how languages and cultures interact, to deepen the reader's understanding of one of the most important aspects of linguistics. Assuming little to no prior knowledge of linguistics, and introducing concepts in an accessible way, this book is an entertaining, informative read for anyone who wants to learn more about the incredible variation and diversity of the human lexicon.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. How Words are Studied: A. What is a word?\u003cbr\u003e B. The internal affairs of words\u003cbr\u003e C. The external affairs of words\u003cbr\u003e Part II. How Words are Carved Out: 1. 1 =2, 5, 6 or 7\u003cbr\u003e 2. Beer eyes and wine-dark sea\u003cbr\u003e 3. Second cousins twice removed\u003cbr\u003e 4. I have three sons and a child\u003cbr\u003e 5. Concepts on the chopping block\u003cbr\u003e 6. Unripe bananas and ripe tomatoes\u003cbr\u003e 7. Mums and clocks mean death\u003cbr\u003e 8. The past is in front of us and the future is behind our back\u003cbr\u003e 9. Far and wide, here and there\u003cbr\u003e 10. Bottles with throats\u003cbr\u003e 11. Setting the TV on fire and extinguishing it\u003cbr\u003e Part III. How Things are Done with Words\u003cbr\u003e 12. Traduttore, traditore!\u003cbr\u003e 13. May you suffer and remember\u003cbr\u003e 14. I screw your 300 Gods\u003cbr\u003e 15. Either he is crazy or his feet stink\u003cbr\u003e 16. Shoo and scat\u003cbr\u003e 17. A dog and pony show\u003cbr\u003e 18. Blah-blah-blah, yada-yada-yada\u003cbr\u003e 19. Acts of darkness\u003cbr\u003e 20. This for that\u003cbr\u003e 21. Me Tarzan, you Jane\u003cbr\u003e 22. How many languages do you speak?\u003cbr\u003e 23. Harmful and shitty people\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. How Words are Born: 24. Cars with tails and leadfooted drivers\u003cbr\u003e 25. Monkey, dog, worm, snail, i.e. 'Crazy A'\u003cbr\u003e 26. Rovers and ski-rolls\u003cbr\u003e 27. Extra crispy soccer players\u003cbr\u003e 28. Chinglish and Eurenglish\u003cbr\u003e 29. Comrade, Sir\u003cbr\u003e 30. Beer and whiskey mighty risky\u003cbr\u003e 31. SOFs and SOWs\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Where Words Live: 32. Old-lady torturers, horse killers, and bad mornings\u003cbr\u003e 33. A fleeing bus\u003cbr\u003e 34. I wish that you enjoy in what you have deserved!\u003cbr\u003e 35. Happy hunting ground\u003cbr\u003e 36. A language is a dialect with an army and navy\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. A Word After: Part VII. Words about Words.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Semantics, discourse analysis, etc [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Semantics, discourse analysis, etc\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Semantics,%20discourse%20analysis,%20etc%20%5BCFG%5D%22\"\u003eCFG\u003c\/a\u003e], Bilingualism \u0026amp; multilingualism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Bilingualism \u0026amp; multilingualism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Bilingualism%20\u0026amp;%20multilingualism%20%5BCFDM%5D%22\"\u003eCFDM\u003c\/a\u003e], Sociolinguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociolinguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociolinguistics%20%5BCFB%5D%22\"\u003eCFB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46001355063576,"sku":"9781108795012","price":26.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108795012i_cc627d7c-39b8-4689-9637-db7623dafc04.jpg?v=1696719561","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-geography-of-words-vocabulary-and-meaning-in-the-worlds-languages-paperback-9781108795012","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}