Through the language glass :
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., c2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.)ISBN: 9780805081954Subject(s): Comparative linguistics | Historical linguistics | Language and languages in literatureDDC classification: 410Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Lending Books | Main Library Stacks | REF | 410 DEU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 013911 |
Includes Index
Language, culture, and thought -- 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 -- Where the sun doesn't rise in the East -- Sex and syntax -- Russian blues -- Forgive us our ignorances.
A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, culture.
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