num_pages: 304
description: Linguistics has long shied away from claiming any link between a language and the culture of its speakers. But now acclaimed linguist Guy Deutscher has dared to reopen the issue. Can culture influence language and 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.
language: English
title: Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
publisher: Metropolitan Books