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DESCRIPTION:Books & Books is thrilled to present an evening with Caleb Ever
 ett for his insightful book: A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Diff
 erences in How We Think (Harvard University Press). About the book: A sweep
 ing exploration of the relationship between the language we speak and our p
 erception of such fundamentals of experience as time\, space\, color\, and 
 smells.\n\nWe tend to assume that all languages categorize ideas and object
 s similarly\, reflecting our common human experience. But this isn’t the ca
 se. When we look closely\, we find that many basic concepts are not univers
 al\, and that speakers of different languages literally see and think about
  the world differently.\n\nCaleb Everett takes readers around the globe\, e
 xplaining what linguistic diversity tells us about human culture\, overturn
 ing conventional wisdom along the way. For instance\, though it may seem th
 at everybody refers to time in spatial terms–in English\, for example\, we 
 speak of time “passing us by”–speakers of the Amazonian language Tupi Kawah
 ib never do. In fact\, Tupi Kawahib has no word for “time” at all. And whil
 e it has long been understood that languages categorize colors based on tho
 se that speakers regularly encounter\, evidence suggests that the color wor
 ds we have at our disposal affect how we discriminate colors themselves: a 
 rose may not appear as rosy by any other name. What’s more\, the terms avai
 lable to us even determine the range of smells we can identify. European la
 nguages tend to have just a few abstract odor words\, like “floral” or “sti
 nky\,” whereas Indigenous languages often have well over a dozen.\n\nWhy do
  some cultures talk anthropocentrically about things being to one’s “left” 
 or “right\,” while others use geocentric words like “east” and “west”? What
  is the connection between what we eat and the sounds we make? A Myriad of 
 Tongues answers these and other questions\, yielding profound insights into
  the fundamentals of human communication and experience.
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SUMMARY:In Person: An Evening With Caleb Everett
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