Through the language glass, why the world looks different in other languages, Guy Deutscher
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Through the language glass, why the world looks different in other languages, Guy Deutscher
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
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non fiction
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Through the language glass
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bibliography
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499178945
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Guy Deutscher
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why the world looks different in other languages
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
Table Of 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
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