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Deutscher, Guy, 1969-
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Color vision -- Anecdotes.
Language and culture.
Comparative linguistics.
Historical linguistics.
Language and languages in literature.
Language and color.
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Deutscher, Guy, 1969-
Color vision -- Anecdotes.
Language and culture.
Comparative linguistics.
Historical linguistics.
Language and languages in literature.
Language and color.
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Through the language glass : why the world looks different in other languages / Guy Deutscher.
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Deutscher, Guy, 1969-
Picador, 2011.
Call #:
410
D486t
Subjects
Color vision -- Anecdotes.
Language and culture.
Comparative linguistics.
Historical linguistics.
Language and languages in literature.
Language and color.
ISBN:
9780312610494 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Why the world looks different in other languages
Edition:
1st Picador ed.
Description:
304 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : col. ill.; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-292) and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
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.
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