Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages

ISBN-13: 9780099505570 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str.

Guy Deutscher

Opis

Guy Deutscher argues that, contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, language does relate to culture and thought, does reflect our own culture and creates a lens through which we see the world.

Recenzje

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

O autorze

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.