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Through the language glass : why the world looks different in other languages / Guy Deutscher.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, (c)2010.Edition: first edDescription: 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0312610491
  • 080508195X
  • 9780312610494
  • 9780805081954
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Through the language glass.LOC classification:
  • P140.D486.T476 2010
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Contents:
Language, culture, and thought -- Naming the rainbow -- A long-wave herring -- The rude populations inhabiting foreign lands -- Those who said our things before us -- Plato and the Macedonian swineherd -- Crying Whorf -- Where the sun doesn't rise in the East -- Sex and syntax -- Russian blues -- Forgive us our ignorances.
Summary: A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, culture. How languages deal with color is given particular emphasis.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Language, culture, and thought -- Naming the rainbow -- A long-wave herring -- The rude populations inhabiting foreign lands -- Those who said our things before us -- Plato and the Macedonian swineherd -- Crying Whorf -- Where the sun doesn't rise in the East -- Sex and syntax -- Russian blues -- Forgive us our ignorances.

A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, culture. How languages deal with color is given particular emphasis.

APA - CHECK FORMATING BEFORE USE Deutscher, G. (2010). Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages. United States: Henry Holt and Company.

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Guy Deutscher is the author of The Unfolding of Language. Formerly a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, he is an honorary research fellow at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Manchester. He lives in Oxford, England.

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