Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages - Rilegato

Deutscher, Guy

 
9780805081954: Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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ISBN 10: 080508195X ISBN 13: 9780805081954
Casa editrice: Metropolitan Books, 2010

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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

Linguistics has long shied away from claiming any link between a language and the culture of its speakers: too much simplistic (even bigoted) chatter about the romance of Italian and the goose-stepping orderliness of German has made serious thinkers wary of the entire subject. But now, acclaimed linguist Guy Deutscher has dared to reopen the issue. Can culture influence language--and vice versa? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? Could our experience of the world depend on whether our language has a word for "blue"?

Challenging the consensus that the fundaments of language are hard-wired in our genes and thus universal, Deutscher argues that the answer to all these questions is--yes. In thrilling fashion, he takes us from Homer to Darwin, from Yale to the Amazon, from how to name the rainbow to why Russian water--a "she"--becomes a "he" once you dip a tea bag into her, demonstrating that language does in fact reflect culture in ways that are anything but trivial. Audacious, delightful, and field-changing,Through the Language Glass is a classic of intellectual discovery.

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Guy Deutscher is the author of The Unfolding of Language. Formerly a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, he is an honorary research fellow at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures at the University of Manchester. He lives in Oxford, England.



GUY DEUTSCHER is the author of The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention. Formerly a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages in the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, he is an honorary Research Fellow at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures in the University of Manchester. He lives in Oxford with his wife and two daughters.

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Editore
Metropolitan Books
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
080508195X
ISBN 13 
9780805081954
Rilegatura
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Numero di pagine
304
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9780312610494: Through the language glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

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ISBN 10:  0312610491 ISBN 13:  9780312610494
Casa editrice: MPS, 2011
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