text Through the language glass : why the world looks different in other languages
- Summary
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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 -- R... Read more
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- Description
- 304 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Co. 2010
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 410 DEU in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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| TADL-WOOD | 410 DEU in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 410 DEU in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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