The Grammar of Happiness (2012)
25/01/2012•Documentary•0h 52m
Overview
The Grammar Of Happiness follows the story of Daniel Everett among the extraordinary 'nonconvertible' Amazonian Pirah tribe, a group of indigenous hunter- gatherers whose culture and outlook on life has taken the world of linguistics by storm. As a young ambitious missionary three decades ago, Dan, a red-bearded towering American, decamped to the Amazon rain forest to save indigenous souls. His assignment was to translate the book of Mark into the tongue of the Pirah, a people whose puzzling speech seemed unrelated to any other on Earth. What he learned during his time with the Pirah led him to question the very foundations of his own deep beliefs. As a 'born again' atheist, Dan divorced his devout Christian wife and became estranged from his children. Having lost faith and family, his new life is dominated by the desire to leave behind his legacy. Everett's most controversial claim is that the Pirah language lacks 'recursion' - the ability to build an infinite number of sentences.
Randall Wood
Director
Reviews
Similar Movie
CodeSwitching
Project Nim
Do I Sound Gay?
American Tongues
The Unanswered Question V : The Twentieth Century Crisis
The Unanswered Question VI : The Poetry of Earth
The Unanswered Question IV : The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
ᏓᏗᏬᏂᏏ
The Unanswered Question I : Musical Phonology
The Unanswered Question II : Musical Syntax
The Unanswered Question III : Musical Semantics
Keelepäästja
Yeah You Rite!
Recommendation Movie
For Your Eyes Only
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
South Park the Streaming Wars Part 2
Complacent
Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur
Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
Dekalog, dziesięć
Rambo III
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
12 Years of DFA: Too Old To Be New, Too New To Be Classic
Latest Movie
Echo Valley
Deep Cover
How to Train Your Dragon
K.O.
STRAW
Predator: Killer of Killers
Ballerina
La viuda negra
The Phoenician Scheme
Fear Street: Prom Queen
Fountain of Youth
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Lilo & Stitch
Final Destination Bloodlines
Our Group Sites
Explore our network of partner platforms
movie21.site
onlinemoviestream.xyz
streamfreemovies.xyz
Copyright © Movie21. All Rights Reserved.