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This book 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 languageand 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 isyes. 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. - Publisher.
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
2016, Penguin Random House
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Dilin aynasından: kelimeler dünyamızı nasıl renklendirir?
Nov 04, 2013, Metis Yayincilik
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Through the language glass: why the world looks different in other languages
2011, Picador
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Feb 01, 2011, Arrow Books
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Through the language glass: why the world looks different in other languages
2010, Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Co.
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Through the language glass
2010, Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Co.
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
2010, Holt & Company, Henry
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Through the language glass: why the world looks different in other languages
2010, Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Co.
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Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World
Jul 05, 2010, William Heinemann
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