https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Endangered-Languages https://booksandideas.net/Endangered-Languages 2015-04-27T05:30:00Z text/html en Denis Bertet Society diversity Florence Gould Foundation linguistics <p>The translation into French of Nicholas Evans' book <i>Dying Words. Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us</i> is a timely reminder for Francophone readers of the magnitude and, particularly, the severity of a phenomenon on which very little has been written in the French language and of which there is still far too little awareness: the mass extinction of languages currently underway.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Thinking-in-Tongues https://booksandideas.net/Thinking-in-Tongues 2012-10-08T07:24:34Z text/html en Caroline Rossi Arts linguistics Text Interviews <p>How does the language we speak affect the way we think? John A. Lucy's unique answers to this question derive from his finding a middle ground between the opposing nativist universalist point of view and empiricist relativist stand.</p>