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Through the language glass

by Guy Deutscher

2010 eng ★ 3.9 (8 ratings)

This book 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-s…

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