Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Deutscher, Guy
ISBN 10: 0312610491 ISBN 13: 9780312610494
Published by Metropolitan Books, 2011
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The New York Times Editor's Choice
The Economist Best Book of 2010
A Financial Times Best Book of 2010
A Library Journal Best Book of 2010
“An informative, pleasurable read… A gifted writer, Deutscher picks his way nimbly past overblown arguments to a sensible compromise.”―The Boston Globe
From Homer to Darwin, from Yale to the Amazon, and through a strange and dazzling history of the color blue, the leading linguist argues that our mother tongues do indeed shape our experiences of the world.
The debate is ages old: Where does language come from? Is it an artifact of our culture or written in our very DNA? In recent years, the leading linguists have seemingly settled the issue: all languages are fundamentally the same and the particular language we speak does not shape our thinking in any significant way. Guy Deutscher says they're wrong. Audacious, delightful, and provocative, Through the Language Glass is destined to become a classic of intellectual discovery.
About the Author: Guy Deutscher is the author of The Unfolding of Language and Through the Language Glass. Formerly a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, he is an honorary research fellow at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Manchester. He lives in Oxford, England.
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Title: Through the Language Glass: Why the World ...
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
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