Through the Language Glass
Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
New York : Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Co., 2010.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, culture.
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.
ISBN:
9780805081954
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LANGUAGE Deu | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
LANGUAGE Deu | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.