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

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Author: Guy Deutscher
Date: 11 Mar 2011
Publisher: Cornerstone
Language: English
Format: Paperback::320 pages
ISBN10: 0099505576
Imprint: ARROW BOOKS LTD
Dimension: 129x 198x 24mm::288g
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Available for download Through the Language Glass : Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages Guy Deutscher Guy Deutscher picks up an old question that has been occupying the minds of great philosophers and OK, so the Deutscher book, Through the Language Glass, Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages. Does the world look different in other languages? Yes – ish. Deustcher does a great job of first taking on those old notions. He goes back to the romantic 20th century ideas, in particular to a writer called Benjamin Lee Whorf. Popular non-fiction on languages and linguistics1 1. The Atoms Of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar Mark C. Baker 2. The Linguistics Wars Randy Allen Harris 3. Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages Guy Deutscher 4. How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die Through the Language Glass Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages Guy Deutscher available in Trade Paperback on also read synopsis and reviews. A New York Times Editors ChoiceAn Economist Best Book of 2010A Financial Times Best Book of 2010A The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language Hardcover – Apr 15 2014. Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages Guy Deutscher. 4.8 out of 5 stars 6. Paperback. Open - question of whether the world looks different in other languages, or just the same in any language." -LinguistList Guy Deutscher (Hebrew: גיא דויטשר ‎; born 1969 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli linguist. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and was a professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Ancient Mesopotamia at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Get this from a library! Through the language glass:why the world looks different in other languages. [Guy Deutscher] In contrast, the minority group of the culturalists, including Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist, linguist and experimental psychologist and professor at the Harvard University, and Guy Deutscher, author of Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in other Languages, disagree. In Through the Language Glass, Gary Deutscher argues that not only are cultural differences reflected in language, but also that “our mother tongue can affect how we think and how we perceive the world.” One of the most striking of many examples he presents is the Japanese solution to a language conundrum involving traffic lights. New book looks at the ways language shapes how we think "Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages." New book looks at the ways language shapes how we think. Guy Deutscher is the author of Through the Language Glass and The Unfolding of Language. Formerly a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge and of the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages in the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, he is an honorary Research Fellow at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures in the University of Manchester. The Fur language, spoken an ethnic group who live in Darfur, has an unusual way of indicating quantity. Instead of simply adding an affix like -s to the end of singular nouns to indicate more than one of something, as in English, Fur has a different plural name to accompany each singular one.Eye is nuunga but two eyes are kuungi.These expressions are reminiscent of irregular plurals in following McWhorter, in the book under review, we will call this “Popular Whorfianism”. Looking at the titles of the two books under review — Guy Deutscher’s Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Different Languages, and John McWhorter’s response, Audacious, delightful, and field-changing, Through the Language Glass is a classic of intellectual discovery. Book Genres: Non Fiction, Humanities, Language, Science, Psychology, Anthropology, History, Sociology, Philosophy, Culture, Popular Science; (PDF, 5.4 MB) You can just see a little peep of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the door of our drawing-room wide open: and it’s very like our passage as far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond. Oh, Kitty! How nice it would be if we could only get through into Looking-glass … A look at the history of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which is the idea that different languages create different worldviews. A look at the history of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which is the idea that different languages create different worldviews. – No one could see the colour blue until modern times. Kevin ancient languages didn’t have a author of “Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages And here we come to the even more controversial question contained in the second part of the book, “Language as a Lens.” If our language acts as a mirror, can we go one step further – is it also a lens through which we view the world? In other words, are the languages we speak a … Define Hopis. Hopis synonyms, Hopis pronunciation, (Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Shoshonean subfamily of the Uto-Aztecan family [from Hopi Hópi peaceful] Ho•pi Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages. Guy Deutscher, Through the language glass: Why the world looks different in other languages. New York: Metropolitan, 2010. Pp. 292, Pb. $18.

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