Series
Living Languages / Vital Languages
We may all learn one or more languages, but do we all know this universal means of communication - Language - after all? Why are there so many? Many questions remain despite our daily practice of language.
Through a series of questions, the aim of this film is to gain a better understanding of the world's languages, from the most spoken to the rarest, but also to gain a better understanding of the work of those who study and describe them on a daily basis, descriptive linguists. In other words, the objective of this series "Living Languages / Vital Languages", is to describe languages to understand Language.
Through a series of questions, the aim of this film is to gain a better understanding of the world's languages, from the most spoken to the rarest, but also to gain a better understanding of the work of those who study and describe them on a daily basis, descriptive linguists. In other words, the objective of this series "Living Languages / Vital Languages", is to describe languages to understand Language.
Nous apprenons tous une ou plusieurs langues, mais connaissons-nous bien ce moyen de communication universel ? Pourquoi autant de langues existent-elles ? Beaucoup d’interrogations demeurent malgré notre pratique quotidienne du langage. Au travers d’une série de questions, il s’agit d’arriver à mieux comprendre les langues du monde, des plus connues aux plus rares, mais aussi de mieux appréhender le travail de ceux qui les étudient au quotidien et les décrivent: les linguistes descripteurs.
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