别睡，这儿有蛇
Don't sleep, there are snakes
Daniel Leonard Everett · 初版 2008 年
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为什么值得读
- 记录与亚马逊皮拉罕人共同生活的经历
- 介绍语言学中递归概念并回应相关争论
- 展现独特文化与语言之外的丛林生存背景
本书扣人心弦地记述了语言学家 Daniel Everett 与生活在巴西中部的亚马逊印第安人小部落 Piraha 人同住期间的惊人经历与发现。Everett 当时是一名基督教传教士，于 1977 年带着妻子和三个年幼的孩子来到 Piraha 人之中，意图使他们皈依。然而他发现的却是一种颠覆了现有所有语言学理论的语言，并折射出一种超越现代人理解的生活方式：Piraha 人没有计数系统，没有固定的颜色词汇，没有战争或个人财产的概念。他们完全生活在……
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……不会自动发生；你得走出去创办新企业、发明新技术等等。有些文化根本不具备这种能力，最终只会走向消亡；想看极端例子的，去读读丹尼尔·埃弗雷特（Daniel Everett）的《别睡，这里有蛇》（Don't Sleep, There are Snakes）吧。
…automatically; you have to go out and start new enterprises, invent new technologies, etc. Some cultures are simply incapable of this and will eventually die out; if you want an extreme example go read "Don't Sleep, There are Snakes" by Daniel Everett.
任何对皮拉罕人（Pirahã）感兴趣的人都该读读丹尼尔·埃弗雷特的《别睡，这里有蛇：亚马逊丛林的生活与语言》（Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle）（http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Sleep-There-Are-Snakes/dp/0307386...）。书中关于语言的内容相当多，但丹尼尔深入那里的背景故事……
Anyone interested in the Pirahã should read 'Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle' by Daniel Everett ( http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Sleep-There-Are-Snakes/dp/0307386... ) There's quite a bit about the language, but the backstory of Daniel going…
> 诺姆·乔姆斯基（Noam Chomsky）与丹尼尔·埃弗雷特之间的论战。《别睡，这里有蛇》讲述了埃弗雷特在皮拉罕人中的亲身经历，真是一本神作。
> the feud between Noam Chomsky and Daniel Everett "Don't sleep, there are snakes" which recounts the experience of Everett among the Pirahas people is a fantastic book.
作为与《语言本能》（The Language Instinct）的对比，我强烈推荐语言学家丹尼尔·埃弗雷特的《别睡，这里有蛇》，书中记录了他在亚马逊一个偏远部落生活并学习他们语言的经历。非常精彩地介绍了语言学中的递归概念，同时也是一次有力的反驳……
As a contrast to 'The Language Instinct' I would highly recommend 'Don't Sleep There are Snakes' by linguist Daniel Everett, which follows his time living with a remote tribe in the Amazon and learning their language. A very nice introduction of the idea of recursion in linguistics, and a rebuttal…
那篇回应里的德语例子全错，这可真让人不敢恭维。不过我倒是挺推荐埃弗雷特的书《别睡，这里有蛇》，里面聊语言其实只占了一部分。
It doesn't inspire confidence that the German examples in that response are all wrong. But I can recommend Everett's book "Don't sleep, there are snakes", which is only partly about language.
……发表在2009年6月期美国语言学会期刊《Language》上。不过乔姆斯基和佩塞茨基（Pesetsky）可能算不上最客观的批评者。我读过埃弗雷特关于皮拉罕人的那本科普书《别睡，这里有蛇》，觉得他的描述挺可信的，但我绝对不是专业语言学家。在 https://www.edge.org/conversation/daniel_l_everett-recursion... 上有一篇对埃弗雷特很棒的专访，其中……
…in the June 2009 issue of the Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, Language. Chomsky and Pesetsky may not be the most objective critics, though. I read Everett's popular book on the Pirahã, "Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes", and found his descriptions believable, but I'm definitely not a professional linguist. There's a nice interview with Everett in https://www.edge.org/conversation/daniel_l_everett-recursion... which…