Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
by:
David Bellos (author)
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos asks: how do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This funny, wise and life-affirming language book shows how, from puns to poetry, news bulletins to the Bible, Asterix to Swedish films, translation is at the heart of everything we do -...
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos asks: how do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This funny, wise and life-affirming language book shows how, from puns to poetry, news bulletins to the Bible, Asterix to Swedish films, translation is at the heart of everything we do - and makes us who we are.
Selected by The New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2011
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780241954300 (0241954304)
Publish date: 2012-09-06
Publisher: Penguin Books
Pages no: 390
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
History,
Reference,
Humanities,
Language,
Words,
Literature,
Science,
Criticism,
Books About Books,
Philosophy
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