Through The Language Glass

Author : Guy Deutscher
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429970112
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through the Language Glass written by Guy Deutscher and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how—and whether—culture shapes language and language, culture Linguistics has long shied away from claiming any link between a language and the culture of its speakers: too much simplistic (even bigoted) chatter about the romance of Italian and the goose-stepping orderliness of German has made serious thinkers wary of the entire subject. But now, acclaimed linguist Guy Deutscher has dared to reopen the issue. Can culture influence language—and vice versa? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? Could our experience of the world depend on whether our language has a word for "blue"? Challenging the consensus that the fundaments of language are hard-wired in our genes and thus universal, Deutscher argues that the answer to all these questions is—yes. In thrilling fashion, he takes us from Homer to Darwin, from Yale to the Amazon, from how to name the rainbow to why Russian water—a "she"—becomes a "he" once you dip a tea bag into her, demonstrating that language does in fact reflect culture in ways that are anything but trivial. Audacious, delightful, and field-changing, Through the Language Glass is a classic of intellectual discovery.

Author : Guy Deutscher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780434016907
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through the Language Glass written by Guy Deutscher and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generalisations about language and culture are at best amusing and meaningless, but is there anything sensible left to be said about the relation between language, culture and thought? *Does language reflect the culture of a society? *I

Author : Marina Yaguello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198700050
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Through the Looking Glass written by Marina Yaguello and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can wordplay--as understood in the broadest sense--teach us about language, its functions, characteristics, structure, and workings? Using Lewis Carroll's Alice as a starting point, Yanguello takes the reader on a vivid and unconventional voyage into the world(s) of language, charting the major themes of linguistics along the way. This is an entertaining and original introduction to the nature of language that will appeal to students and teachers alike.

Author : Guy Deutscher
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805080124
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unfolding of Language written by Guy Deutscher and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the development of that most essential-and mysterious-of human creations: Language"--

Author : Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315522721
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy Through The Looking-Glass written by Jean-Jacques Lecercle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is generally accepted that language is primarily a means of communication. But do we always mean what we say – must we mean something when we talk? This book explores the other side of language, where words are incoherent and meaning fails us. it argues that this shadey side of language is more important in our everyday speech than linguists and philosophers recognize. Historically this other side of language known as has attracted more attention in France than elsewhere. It is particularly interesting because it brings together texts from a wide range of fields, including fiction, poetry and linguistics. The author also discusses the kind of linguistics that must be developed to deal with such texts, a linguistics which makes use of psychoanalytic knowledge. This tradition of writing has produced a major philosopher, Gilles Deleuze. This book provides an introduction to his work, an account of his original theory of meaning and an analysis of the celebrated Anti-Oedipus, which takes délire as one of its main themes.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Exchange and Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Felicity Craig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781897817001
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Through the Looking Glass written by Felicity Craig and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Guy Deutscher
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812779698
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Entropy Crisis written by Guy Deutscher and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intends to prove that the "energy crisis" is an entropy crisis. This book uses examples from daily experiences to introduce the concept of entropy. It shows that the entropy increase due to irreversible transformations simultaneously determines the level of fresh energy supplies of our society and the damage that it causes to the environment.

Author : Guy Deutscher
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0198299885
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syntactic Change in Akkadian written by Guy Deutscher and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2000 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akkadian, an ancient Semitic language spoken in Assyria and Babylonia, is one of the earliest known languages, with a surviving written history from 2500BC to 500BC. Guy Deutscher investigates its development over these two millennia. He shows that changes in the language can be linked to the emergence of complex patterns of communication required by an increasingly sophisticated civilization.

Author : Cynthia Susan Chalupa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780493438917
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through the Looking Glass written by Cynthia Susan Chalupa and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: