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Don't Sleep, There are Snakes Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle

A linguist offers a thought-provoking account of his experiences and discoveries while living with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians living in central Brazil and a people possessing a language that defies accepted linguistic theories and reflects a culture that has no counting system, concept of war, or personal property, and lives entirely in the present.

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  • "Yi ge yu yan xue jia zai ya ma xun cong lin"
  • "Don't sleep, there are snakes"
  • "monde ignoré des Indiens pirahã"
  • "1個語言學家在亞馬遜叢林"
  • "Do not sleep, there are snakes"
  • "1 ge yu yan xue jia zai ya ma xun cong lin"
  • "一個語言學家在亞馬遜叢林"

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  • "A linguist offers a thought-provoking account of his experiences and discoveries while living with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians living in central Brazil and a people possessing a language that defies accepted linguistic theories and reflects a culture that has no counting system, concept of war, or personal property, and lives entirely in the present."
  • "A linguist offers a thought-provoking account of his experiences and discoveries while living with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians living in central Brazil and a people possessing a language that defies accepted linguistic theories and reflects a culture that has no counting system, concept of war, or personal property, and lives entirely in the present."@en
  • "Témoignage du linguiste sur son étude de la langue tonale parlée par la tribu amazonienne et sur son expérience missionnaire auprès des indiens Pirahas. Vivant à l'écart de toute civilisation, ils ne connaissent rien de la vie moderne. Leur langue atypique ne ressemble à aucun autre système linguistique, et pose la question de la relation entre langage et culture."
  • "Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahas, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world. He describes how he began to realise that his discoveries about the Piraha language opened up a new way of understanding how language works in our minds and in our lives, and that this way was utterly at odds with Noam Chomsky's universally accepted linguistic theories. The perils of passionate academic opposition were then swiftly conjoined to those of the Amazon in a debate whose outcome has yet to be won Adventure, personal enlightenment and the makings of a scientific revolution proceed together in this vivid, funny and moving book."@en

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  • "Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian Jungle"
  • "Bie shui, zhe li you she! : yi ge yu yan xue jia zai Yamaxun cong lin"
  • "Don't Sleep, There are Snakes Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle"@en
  • "Le monde ignoré des Indiens pirahãs"
  • "Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian junjle"
  • "Don't Sleep : Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle"
  • "Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian jungle"
  • "Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian jungle"@en
  • "Don't sleep, there are snakes life and language in the Amazonian jungle"
  • "Don't sleep, there are snakes life and language in the Amazonian jungle"@en
  • "別睡,這裡有蛇! : 一個語言學家在亞馬遜叢林"
  • "Le monde ignoré des indiens Pirahãs"
  • "Bie shui,zhe li you she! : yi ge yu yan xue jia zai ya ma xun cong lin = Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian jungle"
  • "Le monde ignoré des Indiens pirahãs [sic]"
  • "別睡,這裡有蛇! : 一個語言學家在亞馬遜叢林 = Don't sleep, there are snakes : life and language in the Amazonian jungle"
  • "別睡, 這裡有蛇! : 一個語言學家在亞馬遜叢林"
  • "Bie shui, zhe li you she ! : yi ge yu yan xue jia zai ya ma xun cong lin"

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