Through the language glass : why the world looks different in other languages
(2010)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
410/DEUTSCHER,G
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2010
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780805081954, 080508195X
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, culture