In Praise of the Garrulous
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Published Date :
01 Jan 2008
Published By
Vagabond Voices
ISBN : 9780956056009
Category : Art and Culture
Format : Paperback
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This is a book about language and above all about the value and essentiality of language in our lives. It might therefore be called a book on the 'ecology' of language, because human language is in danger of being permanently damaged by the way modern technology has developed over the last century, and this will affect not only our competence in organising ourselves socially and politically, but also our inner selves. At the same time, we are collectively accumulating an unprecedented mass of scientific and tehcnologicial knowledge, which in a way we can be proud of, but only if individually and socially we retain the skills to deal with it. The author believes that the maintenance of our linguistic skills is essential to this task, and therefore the linguistic problem takes its place alongside all the other problems we face - the environmental, social and economic problems we are all acquainted with.