Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour your World - Hardcover

Deutscher, Guy

 
9780434016907: Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour your World
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 043401690X ISBN 13: 9780434016907
Verlag: William Heinemann, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Born in 1969, Guy Deutscher read Maths at Cambridge before doing a PhD in Linguistics. Formerly a Research Fellow in Historical Linguistics at St John's College, Cambridge, he is now at the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages in the University of Leiden. He lives in Amsterdam.

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Verlag
William Heinemann
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
043401690X
ISBN 13 
9780434016907
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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