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100 1 $aDeutscher, Guy,$cDr.
245 10 $aThrough the language glass :$bwhy the world looks different in other languages /$cGuy Deutscher.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bMetropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co.,$c2010.
300 $a304 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aLanguage, 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.
520 $aA masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, culture.
650 0 $aComparative linguistics.
650 0 $aHistorical linguistics.
650 0 $aLanguage and languages in literature.
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