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What Language Reveals: A brief history from brain to civilization

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  • Categories:Cultural History
  • Language:Others
  • Publication date:October,2024
  • Pages:237
  • Retail Price:(Unknown)
  • Size:154mm×233mm
  • Publication Place:Belgium
  • Words:65K
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  • Text Color:Black and white
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English title 《 What Language Reveals: A brief history from brain to civilization 》
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Few professors manage to captivate both their academic peers and a wide audience with their insights. Freek Van de Velde is the kind of person for whom you'd happily sit for hours in a dusty lecture hall to listen to.
– Sofie Lemaire, Belgian TV and radio presenter

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★A comprehensive book on how language reveals much more about us than we realize
★Exceptionally well-written and stylistically strong
★Why do men use 'bigger' words when flirting? Why do we adjust our behaviour to others? How does forensic linguistics help track down terrorists?

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Language is more than just sounds and letters - it reveals who we are and where we come from. It tells us much more about ourselves than we realize, constantly evolving while also shaping the society we live in.
This book explores the history of language and its deep connection to human development. How do language and culture reflect each other? What signals do we send about ourselves through the way we speak? Does language shape our thoughts? And how does the way we use language reveal our gender, age, biases, and beliefs?

Author

Freek Van de Velde is a research professor at the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven, where he teaches historical linguistics and language variation. In his research on the history of language, he combines classical philological methods with insights and techniques from
various fields, including biostatistics, cultural evolution, and machine learning. He is a sought-after speaker and a frequent guest expert in the media.

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