【作者简介】 史蒂文•罗杰•费舍尔（Steven Roger Fischer），语言史和古代书写系统研究领域的国际专家，曾任新西兰奥克兰波利尼西亚语言文学研究所所长。著有《语言的历史》《书写的历史》《阅读的历史》《复活岛手记：历史、传统与文本》《世界尽头的岛屿》《太平洋岛屿的历史》等。费舍尔对解读复活节岛和克里特岛上的古代文字做出了突出贡献，2010年当选为新西兰皇家学会会员。 【译者简介】 熊莎，毕业于浙江大学外国语学院，主攻英语语言文学专业，研究方向为中西文化交流，曾参与《剑桥非洲史》等图书的编校工作。

【作者简介】 史蒂文•罗杰•费舍尔（Steven Roger Fischer），语言史和古代书写系统研究领域的国际专家，曾任新西兰奥克兰波利尼西亚语言文学研究所所长。著有《语言的历史》《书写的历史》《阅读的历史》《复活岛手记：历史、传统与文本》《世界尽头的岛屿》《太平洋岛屿的历史》等。费舍尔对解读复活节岛和克里特岛上的古代文字做出了突出贡献，2010年当选为新西兰皇家学会会员。 【译者简介】 熊莎，毕业于浙江大学外国语学院，主攻英语语言文学专业，研究方向为中西文化交流，曾参与《剑桥非洲史》等图书的编校工作。

There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago.While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, linguistics professor John McWhorter reminds us of the variety within the species that speaks them, and argues that, contrary to popular perception, language is not immutable a...(展开全部)

Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions to the engaging self-regard of Greek and to the struggles t...(展开全部)

An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together, and makes possible both the living of a common histo...(展开全部)

An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together, and makes possible both the living of a common histo...(展开全部)

Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience of Chinese through twenty centuries of invasions to the engaging self-regard of Greek and to the struggles t...(展开全部)