Through the Language Glass - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Through the Language Glass write by Guy Deutscher. This book was released on 2010-08-31. Through the Language Glass available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Through the Language Glass
Through the Language Glass - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Through the Language Glass write by Guy Deutscher. This book was released on 2010. Through the Language Glass available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Language Through the Looking Glass
Language Through the Looking Glass - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Through the Looking Glass write by Marina Yaguello. This book was released on 1998. Language Through the Looking Glass available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Unfolding of Language
The Unfolding of Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Unfolding of Language write by Guy Deutscher. This book was released on 2006-05-02. The Unfolding of Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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"--
Philosophy Through The Looking-Glass
Philosophy Through The Looking-Glass - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophy Through The Looking-Glass write by Jean-Jacques Lecercle. This book was released on 2016-08-05. Philosophy Through The Looking-Glass available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
