Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages

Guy Deutscher

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*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. A delightful amalgam of cultural history and popular science, this book explores some of the most fascinating and controversial questions about language, culture and the human mind.

Review

Jaw-droppingly wonderful ... A marvellous and surprising book which left me breathless and dizzy with delight. The ironic, playful tone at the beginning gradates into something serious that is never pompous, intellectually and historically complex and yet always pellucidly laid out. Plus I learned the word plaidoyer which I shall do my utmost to use every day ― Stephen Fry

Fabulously interesting ... a remarkably rich, provocative and intelligent work of pop science ― Sunday Times

Brilliant [and] beautifully written ― Financial Times

So robustly researched and wonderfully told that it is hard to put down ― New Scientist

A delight to read ― Spectator

About the Author

Guy Deutscher is the author of The Unfolding of Language: The Evolution of Mankind's Greatest Invention. Formerly a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, he is an honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He lives in Surrey with his wife and two daughters.

Podrobnosti

Autor	Guy Deutscher
Vydavatel	Arrow
Jazyk	anglicky
Vazba	měkká
Počet stran	320
Formát	12,8 × 19,7 cm
EAN	9780099505570
Rok vydání	2011
Edice	Společnost a společenské vědy