Through the language glass : why the world looks different in other languages / Guy Deutscher.
Publication details: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., c2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780805081954
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BSOP Library | David Weisberg Collection | P140 D48 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00056786 |
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.
