Through the language glass : why the world looks different in other languages / Guy Deutscher.
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TextPublication details: New York : Picador, 2011.Edition: 1st Picador edDescription: 304 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780312610494
- 0312610491
- Language and culture
- Comparative linguistics
- Historical linguistics
- Language and languages in literature
- Language and color
- Comparative linguistics
- Historical linguistics
- Language and color
- Language and culture
- Language and languages in literature
- Comparative linguistics
- Historical linguistics
- Language and languages in literature
- Language and color
- 410 22
- P140 .D475 2011
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A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, culture. How languages deal with color is given particular emphasis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-292) and index.
Prologue : Language, culture, and thought -- Part I: The language mirror. 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 -- Part II: The language lens. Crying Whorf ; Where the sun doesn't rise in the East ; Sex and syntax ; Russian blues -- Epilogue : Forgive us our ignorances -- Appendix : Color : in the eye of the beholder.