Displaying 1 of 1 2010 Format: Book Author: Deutscher, Guy, 1969- Title: Through the language glass : why the world looks different in other languages / Guy Deutscher. Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., ©2010. Description: 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm 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. Subjects: Language and culture. Language and color. Cognition and culture. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Linguistics -- History. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-292) and index. Contents: 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. LCCN: 2010001042 ISBN: 9780805081954 080508195X 9780312610494 0312610491 9780805081954 Other Number: 499178945 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 272598 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 410 Deutsche Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
