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.

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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

Product details

• Authors: Guy Deutscher
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.02.2011
• EAN: 9780099505570
• ISBN: 978-0-09-950557-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Arrow Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Language: general, reference works; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Dialect, slang & jargon, Language: history and general works, Dialect, slang and jargon, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics