Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words
暫譯: 再見，我愛你：我們的第一句與最後一句話的故事

Erard, Michael

Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words
  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2025-02-11
  • 售價: $1,250
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,188
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 344
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 0262049422
  • ISBN-13: 9780262049429

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商品描述

A beautiful and intimate exploration of first and last words--and the many facets of how language begins and ends--from a pioneering language writer.

With our earliest utterances, we announce ourselves--and are recognized--as persons ready for social life. With our final ones, we mark where others must release us to death's embrace. In Bye Bye I Love You, linguist and author Michael Erard explores these phenomena, commonly called "first words" and "last words," uncovering their cultural, historical, and biological entanglements and honoring their deep private significance. Erard draws from personal, historical, and anthropological sources to provide a sense of the breadth of beliefs and practices about these phenomena across eras, religions, and cultures around the world.

What do babies' first words have in common? How do people really communicate at the end of life? In the first half of the book, Erard tells the story of first words in human development and evolution, and how the attention to children's early language--a modern phenomenon--arose. In the second half, he provides a groundbreaking overview of language at the end of life and the cultural conventions that surround it. Throughout he reveals the many parallels and asymmetries between first and last words and asks whether we might be able to use a linguistic understanding of end of life to discover what we truly want.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

對於第一個和最後一個詞的美麗而親密的探索——以及語言如何開始和結束的多個面向——來自一位開創性的語言作家。

透過我們最早的發聲，我們宣告自己——並被認可——為準備好社交生活的人。透過我們的最後一句話，我們標記出他人必須將我們釋放到死亡的懷抱的時刻。在再見，我愛你中，語言學家和作家邁克爾·埃拉德（Michael Erard）探討了這些現象，通常稱為「第一個詞」和「最後一個詞」，揭示了它們的文化、歷史和生物學的交織，並尊重它們深刻的私人意義。埃拉德從個人、歷史和人類學的來源中汲取資料，以提供對這些現象在不同時代、宗教和文化中的信仰和實踐的廣泛理解。

嬰兒的第一個詞有什麼共同點？人們在生命的最後時刻如何真正溝通？在書的前半部分，埃拉德講述了人類發展和演化中的第一個詞的故事，以及對兒童早期語言的關注——這是一種現代現象——是如何產生的。在後半部分，他提供了對生命結束時語言的開創性概述，以及圍繞它的文化習俗。整本書中，他揭示了第一個詞和最後一個詞之間的許多平行和不對稱，並詢問我們是否能夠利用對生命結束的語言理解來發現我們真正想要的東西。

作者簡介

Trained as a linguist and historian, Michael Erard has spent more than two decades sharing compelling stories about language, languages, and the people who use and study them. He is the author of two previous books, Um . . . Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean and Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners, which has been translated into eight languages. He is a researcher at the Centre for Language Studies at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and is training to become an end-of-life doula. Find out more at www.michaelerard.com.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

作為語言學家和歷史學家，邁克爾·艾拉德（Michael Erard）花了超過二十年的時間分享有關語言、語言學以及使用和研究這些語言的人們的引人入勝的故事。他是兩本先前書籍的作者，分別是《嗯……失言、絆倒和口頭錯誤及其意義》（Um . . . Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean）和《巴別塔不再：尋找世界上最非凡的語言學習者》（Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners），該書已被翻譯成八種語言。他是荷蘭奈梅亨拉德堡大學（Radboud University）語言研究中心的研究員，並正在接受成為臨終陪伴者的培訓。欲了解更多資訊，請訪問《www.michaelerard.com》。

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