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020 _a9780805081954
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_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.
300 _a304 p., [8] p. of plates :
_bill. (some col.) ;
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.
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