MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aP140$b.D475 2010
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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.,$cc2010.
300 $a304 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.) ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [274]-292) 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.