Title:
Through the language glass : why the world looks different in other languages
Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Date:
2010
Publication Information:
New York : Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Co., c2010.
Physical Description:
304 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780805081954
Contents:
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 -- When the Sun doesn't rise in the east -- Sex and syntax -- Russian blues -- Forgive us our ignorances.
Language:
English
