Through the language glass : why the world looks different in other languages /
Deutscher, Guy, Dr.
Through the language glass : why the world looks different in other languages / Guy Deutscher. - 1st ed. - New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., c2010. - 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-292) 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.
9780805081954
2010001042
Comparative linguistics.
Historical linguistics.
Language and languages in literature.
Through the language glass : why the world looks different in other languages / Guy Deutscher. - 1st ed. - New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., c2010. - 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-292) 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.
9780805081954
2010001042
Comparative linguistics.
Historical linguistics.
Language and languages in literature.
