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Through the language glass why the world looks different in other languages

A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, culture.

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Main Author: Deutscher, Guy, Dr
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Comparative linguistics.
Historical linguistics.
Language and languages in literature.
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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.
Physical Description:304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780805081954 :
080508195X
Author Notes:Guy Deutscher was born in Tel Aviv in 1969. He received an undergraduate degree in Math and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Cambridge. Afterward, he became a fellow in historical linguistics at St. John's College at Cambridge. He later became a honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester and was a professor in the department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages at the University of Leiden in Holland. He has written several books including Syntactic Change in Akkadian (2000), The Unfolding of Language (2005), and Through the Language Glass (2010).

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