Through the language glass : how words colour your world

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Title:

Through the language glass : how words colour your world

Author:

Deutscher, Guy, 1969-

ISBN:

9780434016907

Personal Author:

Deutscher, Guy, 1969-

Publication Information:

London : William Heinemann, 2010.

Physical Description:

309 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Contents:

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 -- When the Sun doesn't rise in the east -- Sex and syntax -- Russian blues -- Forgive us our ignorances.

Abstract:

Guy Deutscher argues that, contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, language does relate to culture and thought, does reflect our own culture and creates a lens through which we see the world.

Subject Term:

Language and culture.

Comparative linguistics.

Historical linguistics.

Language and languages in literature.

Language and color.

Linguistique.

Comparative linguistics. (OCoLC)fst00871358

Historical linguistics. (OCoLC)fst00958134

Language and color. (OCoLC)fst01741972

Language and culture. (OCoLC)fst00992135

Language and languages in literature. (OCoLC)fst00992277

Jämförande språkvetenskap.

Språkhistoria.

Språksociologi.

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Summary

Generalisations about language and culture are at best amusing and meaningless, but is there anything sensible left to be said about the relation between language, culture and thought?
*Does language reflect the culture of a society?
*Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world?
*Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts?

In Through the Language Glass , acclaimed author Guy Deutscher will convince you that, contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, the answer to all these questions is - yes. On an odyssey that takes us from Homer to Darwin, from scientists to savages, from the corridors of Yale to the rivers of the Amazon, from how to name the rainbow to why Russian water - a 'she' - become a 'he' once you have dipped a tea bag into her, this book explores some of the most fascinating and controversial questions about language, culture and the human mind .