TY - BOOK AU - Deutscher,Guy TI - Through the language glass: why the world looks different in other languages SN - 080508195X PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co. KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Historical linguistics KW - Language and languages in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, culture ER -