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_a410 _bDEU |
100 | 1 | _aDeutscher, Guy, | |
245 | 1 | 0 | _aThrough the language glass : |
250 | _a1st ed. | ||
260 |
_aNew York : _bMetropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., _cc2010. |
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_a304 p., [8] p. of plates : _bill. (some col.) ; |
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500 | _aIncludes Index | ||
505 | 0 | _aLanguage, 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 | _aA 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 | _aComparative linguistics. | |
650 | 0 | _aHistorical linguistics. | |
650 | 0 | _aLanguage and languages in literature. | |
942 | _cBK | ||
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