Through the language glass : why the world looks different in other languages
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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. Full description
Table of Contents:
- 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.