Through the language glass : (Record no. 43233)
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fixed length control field | 01065cam a2200205 a 4500 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
ISBN | 9780805081954 |
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 410 |
Item number | DEU |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
Personal name | Deutscher, Guy, |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Through the language glass : |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
Edition statement | 1st ed. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
Place of publication | New York : |
Name of publisher | Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., |
Year of publication | c2010. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Number of Pages | 304 p., [8] p. of plates : |
Other physical details | ill. (some col.) ; |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
General note | Includes Index |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
Formatted contents note | Language, culture, and thought -- Naming the rainbow -- A long-wave herring -- The rude populations inhabiting foreign lands -- Those who said our things before us -- Plato and the Macedonian swineherd -- Crying Whorf -- Where the sun doesn't rise in the East -- Sex and syntax -- Russian blues -- Forgive us our ignorances. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc | A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, culture. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | Comparative linguistics. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | Historical linguistics. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | Language and languages in literature. |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
Koha item type | Lending Books |
Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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Main Library | Main Library | Stacks | 25/09/2014 | Purchased | 4500.00 | 410 DEU | 013911 | Lending Books |