- Historical linguistics, Language and languages in literature, Comparative linguistics, Language acquisition -- Social aspects
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-stepping orderliness of German has made serious thinkers wary of the entire subject.
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Spare, warm, cool and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Guy Deutscher
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Picador, Holt & Company, Henry
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- tur, English
- ISBN
- 9780805081954
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