01442cam a2200277 4500 423137050 TxAuBib 20200409120000.0 100111s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010001042 9780805081954 080508195X TxAuBib Deutscher, Guy,. Through the Language Glass : Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages / Guy Deutscher. 1st ed. New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2010. 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-292) and index. 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. A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, culture. 20200409. Comparative linguistics. Historical linguistics. Language and languages in literature.