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در باب زبان و زبان‌شناسی: شصت گفتار مختصر و مفید

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شناسنامه
عنوان: در باب زبان و زبان‌شناسی: شصت گفتار مختصر و مفید
پدیدآور/ویراستار: ای. ام. ریکرسون، بری هیلتون
E.M. Rickerson , Barry Hilton
موضوع: زبان، مسائل متفرقه، سال زبان‌ها در ایالات متحد امریکا
مترجم: محمدمهدی مرزی
مشخصات نشر: تهران: هرمس
نوبت چاپ: اول
سال انتشار: 1392
طراح جلد: سحر افشار
مشخصات ظاهری: دوازده+307 صفحه
شابک: 9789643638511
شمارگان: 1500 نسخه
قیمت: 14000 تومان

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First published October 1, 2006

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51 reviews8 followers
August 12, 2016
سال 2005 میلادی به نام سال زبان ها از سوی کنگره ی ایالات متحده آمریکا نام گذاری شده بود. تا به این صورت ضرورت و اهمیت یادگیری زبان های دیگری را برای مردم آمریکا برجسته کنند. از این رو برنامه ای رادیویی به این منظور تشکیل می شود و در این برنامه مجموعه مقالاتی در باره ی زبان و زبانشناسی برای شنودگان از اساتید زبان و زبان شناسی برای شنوندگان خوانده می شد.
در این کتاب شصت گفتار این برنامه رادیویی به صورت مکتوب در این کتاب جمع آوری شده است. این گفتارها به صورتی نگاشته شده اند که خواننده با مفاهیم خسته کننده تخصصی زبان شناسی درگیر نمی شود و بسیار شیرین و شیوا نگاشته شده اند.

شاه بیت و جمله ای که از این کتاب در ذهنم نقش بسته این جمله است که درباره تفاوت لهجه و زبان است: «زبان هم یک لهجه است با یک لشگر و یک ناوگان جنگی»
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530 reviews436 followers
June 5, 2022
Even if you’re not going to be a linguist and are just curious or enthusiastic about languages, I guarantee that you’ll enjoy this little great book.


[Just keep in mind that there are more recent studies about the topics mentioned here. But for having the main idea, this book would sufficiently serve you. For those who want to read some state-of-the-art stuff, I may suggest you consult Google Scholar & website like that afterwards.]
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January 24, 2018
واقعا ایده‌های خوبی در مورد زندگی و انسان میده. البته کتاب در مورد زندگی و انسان نیست، در مورد زبانه. ولی وقتی می‌فهمی که چقدر تفاوت‌ها و موضوعاتی در مورد زبان هست که تو جامعه به اشتباه فهمیده شده و حتی به خلافش باور دارند، می‌فهمی که دنیا چقدر میتونه متفاوت‌تر باشه. و البته آسان‌تر برای زندگی، وقتی مدل درست‌تری رو می‌فهمی.
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112 reviews15 followers
March 4, 2023
کسانی که به زبان و زبان‌شناسی علاقه دارن ولی نمی‌خوان متن‌های خیلی تخصصی در این باره رو بخونن می‌تونن بیان سراغ ۶۰ تا مقاله‌ی کوتاه این کتاب که درباره‌ی زبان‌های مختلف، زبان‌آموزی یا به طور کلی پدیده‌ی زبان به عنوان وسیله‌ای برای ایجاد ارتباط نوشته شدن.
آخر هر فصل (یا هر مقاله) یه معرفی مختصر از نویسنده‌ی اون فصل و چند تا پیشنهاد کتابی دیگه با همون موضوع می‌بینین. خود من به خاطر همین معرفی‌ها چند تا کتاب دیگه در زمینه‌ی زبان و زبان‌شناسی به لیست کتاب‌هایی که باید بخونم اضافه کردم!
حرف آخر اینکه محتوای کتاب گاهی برای کسی که یه کم در زمینه‌ی زبان‌شناسی یا آموزش زبان (مثل من) مطالعه داشته و یا در این زمینه کار می‌کنه، ممکنه به نظر کسالت‌آور یا خیلی ساده و واضح بیاد ولی می‌تونه شما رو به زبان‌شناسی علاقه‌مند(تر) بکنه. درضمن باید این نکته رو هم در نظر داشته باشین که نویسنده‌های این کتاب آمریکایین و سعی داشتن برای مخاطب آمریکایی (که به گفته‌ی خودشون کمتر به دنبال یادگیری زبان دومه) بنویسن؛ بنابراین زبان مبنا که نکات مختلف بر اساسش بیان می‌شن و یا زبان‌های دیگه باهاش مقایسه می‌شن،انگلیسیه. پس اگر انگلیسیتون هم خوبه، خیلی از مثال‌های کتاب براتون قابل‌درکتر خواهند بود.
5 reviews
May 23, 2020
a really nice introduction to the world of linguistics/language!! i enjoyed the simplistic short essay format of the book—it offered a glimpse into such a large variety of topics and kept everything nicely succinct and straightforward. my fav essays were the ones on the icelandic language, forensic linguistics, and the sociopolitical backdrop of language vs dialect debates. also yay this was my 20th book of the year so i completed my goodreads reading challenge goal thing but idk if i should change it to make it higher or just leave it lmao
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February 16, 2016
در بابِ زبان و زبان‌شناسی: شصت گفتارِ مختصر و مفید / ای. ام. ریکرسون، بری هیلتون / تهران: هرمس، چاپِ اول 1392
زبان، مسائلِ متفرقه، سالِ زبان‌ها در ایالاتِ متحد امریکا

زبان‌ها را دریاب، تا جهان را دریابی
هدف کتاب، آگاهی دادن دربارۀ ماهیت و گوناگونی زبان‌های مختلف است. اهمیت پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناختی، باعث شد مجلس سنا و نمایندگان آمریکا، سال 2005م را «سال زبان‌ها» نام‌گذاری کند. انجمن آموزش زبان‌های خارجی آمریکا نیز اقدامات متنوع و وسیعی را در همین راستا انجام داد. جلسات سخنرانی، نمایش فیلم، مسابقه در مدارس، تابلوهای بزرگ تبلیغاتی، مسابقات ایالتی و مقاله‌نویسی، برپایی جشنواره‌های فرهنگ و زبان عامه، تأسیس مدرسۀ زبان‌ها و مسائل جهانی، و بسیاری اقدامات دیگر.

سلسله‌ای از برنامه‌های رادیویی، به‌نام «گفتن از گفتن» نیز تهیه شد. این برنامه‌ها از ایستگاه‌های مختلفِ رادیویی در سراسر آمریکا پخش شد. این کتاب نیز اقتباسی از گفتارهای همان برنامه‌ است.


شناسنامه
عنوان: در باب زبان و زبان‌شناسی: شصت گفتار مختصر و مفید
پدیدآور/ویراستار: ای. ام. ریکرسون، بری هیلتون
E.M. Rickerson , Barry Hilton
موضوع: زبان، مسائل متفرقه، سال زبان‌ها در ایالات متحد امریکا
مترجم: محمدمهدی مرزی
مشخصات نشر: تهران: هرمس
نوبت چاپ: اول
سال انتشار: 1392
طراح جلد: سحر افشار
مشخصات ظاهری: دوازده+307 صفحه
شابک: 9789643638511
شمارگان: 1500 نسخه
قیمت: 14000 تومان
عنوان اصلی: The Five-Minute Linguist: Bite-Sized Essays on Language and Languages
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124 reviews4 followers
June 14, 2022
Adem ile Havva hangi dili konuşuyordu diye bir makale kitabın içinde gerçekten var. Ve makale söyle bir argüman ile devam ediyor: Adem ile Havva hangi dili konuşuyorsa muhtemelen o dil Tanrı’nın diliydi. Dil konusuna ilgi duyan dilbilim okuyan insanların dinlenmek için makale okumasını sağlayacak kadar keyifli bir kitap
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743 reviews10 followers
July 7, 2022
Language is universal, and each of us is a kind of expert in using the language we were raised speaking, but there's a lot more to language than what we use in everyday life, and it raises a lot of fascinating questions. Whatever happened to Esperanto? Can machines translate languages? Are some ways of speaking or writing better than others? The chapters in this book will address all these questions and many more.
from "Why learn about languages?" by Robert Rodman

The essays which comprise The 5 Minute Linguist are taken from audio briefs from a radio program entitled Talkin' About Talk designed to promote linguistic studies and appreciation. Because they are designed as introductions or advertisements for existent language-study niches, none of these essays achieve any real depth. The value of this work is that at the end of each essay is a brief annotated guide for more information pertaining to the topic. If you're enticed by the topic and wish to enter a specific linguistic rabbit hole, then the editors provide the means to do so.

Some of the essays are dated--gushing about the wonders of the "world wide web" in promoting and learning foreign languages. Nowhere is Rosetta Stone or Duolingo mentioned, but the roots of these systems are anticipated in many of these essays.

On the whole, the book is a quick-read and enjoyable foray into languages and language study. While I often feel many authors barely provide an outline of a rich topic, they do whet the appetite--and that's the whole purpose here: promoting the wonder and diversity of the languages of humanity.

This is Book 400 (Language) in my personal "Dewey Decimal Reading Challenge": Reading a book from each of the ten categories of the Dewey Decimal system.

Reviews of Other Books in the Challenge:

Book 000: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Book 100: The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle
Book 200: In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion
Book 300: Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Book 400: The Five-Minute Linguist: Bite-Sized Essays on Language and Languages
Book 500: Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction
Book 600: What To Expect When You're Expecting Robots: The Future of Human-Robot Collaboration
Book 700: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
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17 reviews
January 4, 2019
If you know nothing about linguistics, this might be an interesting book. However the essays are of such an elementary nature that anyone who has any knowledge at all about the subject will likely find it repetitive.

On top of that, several of the chapters are redundant. i.e. there is a chapter about people speaking Italian in the United States and another is another chapter about people speaking German in the United States. Although those are obviously different languages, the content of the chapters is very similar.

The worst oversight is that some chapters are basically advertisements, most obviously one for a museum of languages. It would be interesting to visit that, but the chapter was basically "yo, this museum is cool and you should check it out!" Very heavy-handed.
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164 reviews214 followers
September 15, 2014
ترجمه‌ی خوبی داشت. همین که آدم اصلاً متوجه حضور مترجم نمی‌شه یعنی که ترجمه‌ی کتاب عالیه. و من الان عزای خوندن کتاب دیگه‌ای رو گرفتم که انگلیسی را با کلمات فارسی نوشته و ترجمه‌ی یه استاد دانشگاهه.
این کتاب شصت تا گفتاره که لزوماً همه‌اش مورد علاقه‌ی خواننده نیست ولی چون همه‌ی این گفتارها کوتاه‌کوتاهه و سریع سر و ته موضوع را هم میاره خوندنشون دلچسبه.
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320 reviews5 followers
September 13, 2015
Easy to read, but a very basic level. No depth of exploration of the topics, and sometimes obvious ideas discussed.
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10 reviews1 follower
August 5, 2022
کتاب باحالی بود ، واقعا از خوندنش لذت بردم
درمورد تاریچه زبان ها و این که هر زبانی رو در هر سنی میتونی یاد بگیری باعث انگیزه و دلگرمیم شد
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93 reviews11 followers
March 29, 2018
Had to get this for a class. The class was a disappointment. The book was a disappointment. I'd already come to all of the conclusions we discussed in the course. Needless to say, I skimmed most of it. And by skimmed, I mean I read the chapter titles, which was enough to remind me I already knew my opinions on the subjects.
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32 reviews6 followers
June 8, 2019
It's not quite as elementary as some people are making out. Sure it's basic, but it does say "bite sized essays" and it thus tells most people a lot of things that they may not have thought about, e.g. not letting the Arabic alphabet scare you, because the characters can actually be learned in about 12 hours. I thought that was pretty cool, and I thus read every chapter.
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116 reviews
October 16, 2022
Tam olarak kapağında yaza şeyi vaadeden bir kitap. Özellikle işsaretlediğim veya not aldığım bir bilgi yok. Çok bilinmeyenden bahsettiği yazılar da yok. Okurken ne birşey öğrendim ne de birşey kaybettim. Çerezlik yazılar.
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29 reviews
February 10, 2024
As the title suggests, short evidence based essays on language and linguistics. I would like to read the updated version since this edition is older. But all essays were easy to follow and understand and guided me to find specific interests to research later
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113 reviews2 followers
August 17, 2025
This is a fun book exploring languages and linguistics which is easy to read with short 3 page chapters. All chapters are answering a big or small question about language and languages. Each ends with referrals to other chapters and a 3-4 line bibliography for future reading.
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190 reviews
May 31, 2017
One of the few books in required reading lists that I actually enjoyed and didn't re-sale once the semester was over.
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86 reviews5 followers
July 6, 2018
لفت نظري الكتاب بغلافه الأصفر في رف مكتبة عامة، استعرته و لم اندم على ذلك!
الكتاب ممتع جدا لكل من يحب اللغات والحديث عن اللغويات
اعطيه ٥ من ٥ !
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12 reviews2 followers
September 29, 2020
Must read for anyone interested in languages. Cool q&a styled book, with many stories and also ideas for further reading about languages.
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188 reviews25 followers
July 15, 2025
Simple and interesting, beginner-friendly essays. Although some are a little outdated, I still recommend this book to anyone who likes linguistics and languages.
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63 reviews10 followers
April 30, 2020
Really enjoyable read. Bite-seized essays on everything languages! Although perfect for language enthusiasts, it can also serve as a good introduction into linguistics (not really, but still very interesting) for anyone with an interest in that area. Those who want to delve into the subject even more, I would recommend textbooks rather than this book. I liked how the authors presented and explored really quite different topics and included a little reference with further reading. I definitely recommend it to all language freaks out there :)
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399 reviews40 followers
October 7, 2013
This book is based on a series of radio shorts from 2005 called Talkin' About Talk produced at the College of Charleston. The College has made the recordings available on their website and through iTunesU.

The book (and radio program) are exactly what it says it is: quick introductory essays on a range of topics in the broad field of linguistics that are good starting points for interested laypeople.

The only minor criticism I have is that it can be a bit rah-rah, overly positive about the quality, effectiveness, and success of our language teaching methodologies and educational institutions. Considering the radio programs were part of a marketing/outreach effort for an event (the CAL "2005 Year of Languages" campaign) sponsored by those institutions, that's not much of a surprise.
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31 reviews33 followers
December 11, 2009
This is a fun book with a pretty brilliant concept. There are sixty short chapters, each starting off with a question such as "Are pidgins and creoles real languages?," How does the brain cope with multiple languages?," "Is British English the Right English?," or What is 'Speaking in Tongues'?" In four or five pages an expert on the topic gives an overview in clear, layman's terms, and then points the reader to other works. I found it really interesting and learned a lot. In my opinion there are a few too many chapters by language instructors trying to convenience the audience that we should all learn more languages and how to go about it, but each chapter was so short it didn't bug me too much.
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997 reviews241 followers
March 18, 2010
I went to the library last night looking for a nice fun intro to linguistics, something that would show off how interesting the subject is, without being academic and dense and not fun. This seemed innocuous enough to be worth trying, since it's so brief. However, by doing so much to condense and compartmentalize and popularize these questions, the book lost a lot of the potential to generate interest or explain anything in any depth. It was much less informative than I'd hoped for. I would say, don't bother. It isn't bad, but the writing is boring, and most of the information is obvious and boring.
23 reviews7 followers
June 9, 2014
Excellent little book! I wish I had heard the radio series when it was running (I'll probably look up the audio files at some point). The scope, obviously, is limited, but since I'm not a real linguist anyway, I enjoyed this shallow immersion into the world of linguistics. No phonetic alphabet in sight, no talk of aspirated and unaspirated sounds, just really interesting discussions that anyone can understand and like. I'll certainly research some of these topics further (like Spanish vs. Portuguese).
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18 reviews3 followers
August 13, 2009
This is a bite sized version of everything I learned in all of my linguistics classes.

It's easy to read because each chapter is about three pages long and in layman's terms.

Give it a shot!
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110 reviews
January 7, 2014
Excellent rudimentary education in linguistics.
78 reviews4 followers
December 4, 2014
Not too much new stuff here but a nice intro to some interesting ideas.
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