An edition of Through the language glass (2010)

Through the language glass

why the world looks different in other languages

1st ed.
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Through the language glass
Guy Deutscher, Guy Deutscher
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An edition of Through the language glass (2010)

Through the language glass

why the world looks different in other languages

1st ed.
  • 3.9 (8 ratings) ·
  • 64 Want to read
  • 4 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

This book confronts the thorny question of how and whether culture shapes language and language, culture. Linguistics has long shied away from claiming any link between a language and the culture of its speakers: too much simplistic (even bigoted) chatter about the romance of Italian and the goose-stepping orderliness of German has made serious thinkers wary of the entire subject. But now, acclaimed linguist Guy Deutscher has dared to reopen the issue. Can culture influence languageand vice versa? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? Could our experience of the world depend on whether our language has a word for "blue"? Challenging the consensus that the fundaments of language are hard-wired in our genes and thus universal, Deutscher argues that the answer to all these questions isyes. In thrilling fashion, he takes us from Homer to Darwin, from Yale to the Amazon, from how to name the rainbow to why Russian water -- a "she" -- becomes a "he" once you dip a tea bag into her, demonstrating that language does in fact reflect culture in ways that are anything but trivial. Audacious, delightful, and field-changing, Through the Language Glass is a classic of intellectual discovery. - Publisher.

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Cover of: Through the Language Glass
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
2016, Penguin Random House
in English
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paperback in Turkish
Cover of: Through the language glass
Through the language glass: why the world looks different in other languages
2011, Picador
in English - 1st Picador ed.
Cover of: Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Cover of: Through the language glass
Through the language glass: why the world looks different in other languages
2010, Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Co.
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Through the language glass
Through the language glass: why the world looks different in other languages
2010, Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Co.
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World
Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World
Jul 05, 2010, William Heinemann
Cover of: Through the language glass
Through the language glass
2010, Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Co.
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Through the Language Glass
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
2010, Holt & Company, Henry
in English

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Table of Contents

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
When the Sun doesn't rise in the east
Sex and syntax
Russian blues
Forgive us our ignorances.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
410
Library of Congress
P140 .D487 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24039728M
ISBN 13
9780805081954
LCCN
2010001042
OCLC/WorldCat
499178945

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