Through the Language Glass

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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? This title states that contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, the answer to all these questions is - yes.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Guy Deutscher
• Verlag: Arrow
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 03.02.2011
• EAN: 9780099505570
• ISBN: 978-0-09-950557-0
• Seiten: 320
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Serie: Arrow Books
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Kunst, Literatur > Sprache: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Dialect, slang & jargon, Language: history and general works, Dialect, slang and jargon, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics