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100 1  Deutscher, Guy,|d1969- 
245 10 Through the language glass :|bwhy the world looks 
       different in other languages /|cGuy Deutscher. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bMetropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co.,|c2010. 
300    304 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  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. 
520    A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite 
       and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--
       and whether--culture shapes language and language, 
       culture. 
650  0 Comparative linguistics. 
650  0 Historical linguistics. 
650  0 Language and languages in literature.