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Guy Deutscher presents dozens of new insights into the nature and function of language, showing, for example, how languages 'decay', evolving and simplifying as a result of the laziness of the speakers, while also developing through the use of metaphor.
Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.
| ISBN: | 9780805080124 |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Pub date: | 02 May 2006 |
| DEWEY: | 417.7 |
| DEWEY edition: | 23 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 358 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Height: | 234mm |
| Width: | 164mm |
| Spine width: | 26mm |
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