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.
Guy Deutscher: Through the language glass (2011, Picador)
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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.
304 pages
Langue : English
Publié 9 août 2011 par Picador.
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978-0-312-61049-4
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- Numéro OCLC :
- 712116644
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Sujets
- Historical linguistics
- Language and languages in literature
- Language and color
- Comparative linguistics