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
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.02.2011
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Kunst, Literatur > Sprache: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke
• EAN: 9780099505570
• ISBN: 978-0-09-950557-0
• Anzahl Seiten: 320
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 12.9 x 19.8 x 2.3 cm
• Serie: Arrow Books
• Themen: Education, History, Culture, Language, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, English Language, Self help, Steven Pinker, Sociolinguistics, Stephen Fry, Historiography, languages, Psycholinguistics, Dialect, slang & jargon, Critical Thinking, Language: history and general works, Dialect, slang and jargon, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, the lost world, mother and child, michael rosen, The Lost Words, eats shoots and leaves, jeremy paxman, books by bill bryson, gay non-fiction english, the lost child, david crystal, lost without you, david mark, stephen pinker, the mother tongue, lynne truss, world of the child, myths of the world, melvyn bragg, steven fry, john humphrys books, english dialect dictionary, babel non-fiction