by Gaston Dorren · Garzanti · tapa dura · ISBN 9788811607564
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«Babele. Le 20 lingue che spiegano il mondo» is the linguistics essay by Gaston Dorren, published by Garzanti in hardback (408 pages, in Italian).
Gaston Dorren surveys the twenty most spoken languages in the world and analyses why some became global and others did not. The book combines linguistics, history and anecdotes, and includes cases such as Japanese with masculine and feminine registers, the kinship between Russian and English, or the myths about Chinese writing.
Italian edition published on 5 September 2019, translated by Carlo Capararo and Cristina Spinoglio. Original work: «Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages» (2018).
It will appeal to enthusiasts of linguistics, cultural history and popular science on how languages shape the worldview.
