A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, culture. How languages deal with color is given particular emphasis.
Guy Deutscher: Through the language glass (2011, Picador)
A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, culture. How languages deal with color is given particular emphasis.
304 pages
English language
Published Dec. 17, 2011 by Picador.
Subjects
- Historical linguistics
- Language and languages in literature
- Language and color
- Comparative linguistics
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