Through the language glass
Subtitle: why the world looks different in other languages
By: Guy Deutscher
Edition: 1st Picador ed.
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780312610494
Subjects: Historical linguistics; Language and languages in literature; Language and color; Comparative linguistics
Description: A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, culture.  How languages deal with color is given particular emphasis.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: Language, culture, and thought; title: Naming the rainbow; title: A long-wave herring; title: The rude populations inhabiting foreign lands; title: Those who said our things before us; title: Plato and the Macedonian swineherd; title: Crying Whorf; title: Where the sun doesn't rise in the East; title: Sex and syntax; title: Russian blues; title: Forgive us our ignorances; title: Color : In the eye of the beholder.