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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Tammet, Daniel, 1979-     Subjects     Language and languages -- Essays.     Linguistics -- Essays.     Communication -- Essays.     Asperger's syndrome -- Patients -- England -- Essays.     Savants (Savant syndrome) -- England -- Essays.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Tammet, Daniel, 1979-       by title:      Every word is a bird...       by call number:      402 T158e     Search the Web     Tammet, Daniel, 1979-     Language and languages -- Essays.     Linguistics -- Essays.     Communication -- Essays.     Asperger's syndrome -- Patients -- England -- Essays.     Savants (Savant syndrome) -- England -- Essays.       MARC Display

Every word is a bird we teach to sing : encounters with the mysteries and meanings of language / Daniel Tammet. by Tammet, Daniel, 1979- Little, Brown and Company, 2017. Call #: 402 T158e Subjects Language and languages -- Essays.   Linguistics -- Essays.   Communication -- Essays.   Asperger's syndrome -- Patients -- England -- Essays.   Savants (Savant syndrome) -- England -- Essays. ISBN:  9780316353052 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  262 pages ; 22 cm. Contents:  Finding my voice -- The language teacher -- You are what you say -- A poet savant -- Cuecueiuca -- A clockwork language -- The man who was Friday -- Icelandic names -- Dead man talking -- An Englishman at l'Académie Française -- OuLiPo -- Talking hands -- Translating faithfully -- A grammar of the telephone -- Conversational human. Summary:  Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks 'talk' to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will artificial intelligence researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this collection of essays, Daniel Tammet answers these and many other questions about the intricacy and profound power of language. Tammet goes back in time to explore the numeric language of his autistic childhood; he looks at the music and patterns that words make, and how languages evolve and are translated. He meets one of the world's most accomplished lip readers in Canada, learns how endangered languages like Manx are being revived and corresponds with native speakers of Esperanto in their mother tongue. He studies the grammar of the telephone, contemplates the significance of disappearing dialects, and also asks: will chatbots ever manage to convince us that they are human? From the art of translation to the lyricism of sign language, a fascinating journey through the world of words, letters, stories and meanings, and a testament to the range of Tammet's literary and polyglot talents. Daniel Tammet is an essayist, novelist and translator. He is the author of Thinking in Numbers, Embracing the Wide Sky, and Born on a Blue Day: a memoir of Asperger's and an extraordinary mind. Genre:  Essays. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 402 T158e Core Collection - Adult Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 402 T158e Adult books Checked out Jul 16, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library Adult Nonfiction 402 T158e Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList

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