Through The Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World (1st edition) by Guy Deutscher. William Heinemann, 2010

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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 is—yes.

 

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Publisher: William Heinemann, 2010

ISBN: 978 0 434 01690 7

 

 

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