Words of Wonder

Preface to the Second Edition vi

Acknowledgments for the First Edition ix

Prologue xiv

About the Companion Website xx

Part I The Library of Babel 1

1 Warramurrungunji's Children 5

2 Four Millennia to Tune In 24

Part II a Great Feast of Languages 45

3 A Galapagos of Tongues 49

4 Your Mind in Mine: Social Cognition in Grammar 70

Part III Faint Tracks in An Ancient Wordscape: Languages and Deep World History 83

5 Sprung from Some Common Source 85

6 Travels in the Logosphere: Hooking Ancient Words onto Ancient Worlds 105

7 Keys to Decipherment: How Living Languages Can Unlock Forgotten Scripts 129

Part IV Ratchetting Up Each Other: the Coevolution of Language, Culture, and Thought 153

8 Trellises of the Mind: How Language Trains Thought 157

9 What Verse and Verbal Art Can Weave 185

Part V On the Brink 205

10 Listening While We Can 207

Part VI Afterword 231

Epilogue: In the Shade of the Casuarina 233

Outro: Reawakening the Word 236

References 255

Maps 280

Index of Languages and Language Families 284

Index 290

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• Sociologia, família e relacionamentos

Indigenous languages; language endangerment; language preservation; language loss; linguistic diversity; language documentation; language archiving; language revitalisation; language restoration; language and social cognition; language typology; decipherment; Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; linguistic relativity; verbal art; oral literature