Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour your World - Couverture rigide

Deutscher, Guy

 
9780434016907: Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour your World
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 043401690X ISBN 13 : 9780434016907
Editeur : William Heinemann, 2010

Synopsis

Generalisations about language and culture are at best amusing and meaningless, but is there anything sensible left to be said about the relation between language, culture and thought?
*Does language reflect the culture of a society?
*Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world?
*Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts?

In Through the Language Glass, acclaimed author Guy Deutscher will convince you that, contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, the answer to all these questions is - yes. On an odyssey that takes us from Homer to Darwin, from scientists to savages, from the corridors of Yale to the rivers of the Amazon, from how to name the rainbow to why Russian water - a 'she' - become a 'he' once you have dipped a tea bag into her, this book explores some of the most fascinating and controversial questions about language, culture and the human mind.

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À propos de l'auteur

Born in 1969, Guy Deutscher read Maths at Cambridge before doing a PhD in Linguistics. Formerly a Research Fellow in Historical Linguistics at St John's College, Cambridge, he is now at the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages in the University of Leiden. He lives in Amsterdam.

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Éditeur
William Heinemann
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
043401690X
ISBN 13 
9780434016907
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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