Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages
by:
Guy Deutscher (author)
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099505570 (0099505576)
Publish date: February 3rd 2011
Publisher: Arrow
Pages no: 310
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Humanities,
Language,
Science,
Popular Science,
Culture,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Anthropology,
Psychology
I bought this book on February 1st at a bookstore in Aachen, Germany, during what they called 'Bye Bye-Brexit rabat' (Bye Bye Brexit Sale) which was 20% discount on all English books. Obviously, I couldn't resist. I went on to convince the book club I recently joined to read it as our next read, but...
Nonfiction book about languages and the effect on culture, or culture and the effect on languages. Depends on how you read it and what you think about it, really. Deutscher discusses at length various linguistic theories and how they have evolved over time as the scientific side of intellectual curi...
Oh, yes! Fellow linguist's ideas on how languages matter.
I really enjoyed this book, even though, or maybe because, it was not at all what I expected. I was expecting a kind of language survey detailing the ways in which various languages differ from each other that might possibly be related to culture. For example, the rather overplayed number of diffe...
Am I the only one to feel that the style of this book is a bit too pretentious? A little over-finessed, a little disposed to show off the author's unquestionably very good English? Yeah, I know, I'm not a native speaker myself...
10 years ago
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