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Through the Language GlassBy Guy Deutscher

In a Nutshell

Through The Language Glass explains how the language you speak fundamentally alters your reality and how nature, culture and language have all been intertwined all throughout history.

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Within two or three generations, at least half the world's six thousand or so languages will have disappeared.

Guy Deutscher

Introduction

Why do speakers of different languages have different ways of categorizing colors? Do people actually see colors differently, or are these merely different ways of describing the same phenomena?

Guy Deutscher is an Israeli linguist who has dedicated his life to the critical investigation of the origins of human language.

Rather than taking a side in the nature versus culture debate, Deutscher argues that when it comes to human language, both shape each other and are shaped by each other in turn.

Drawing on decades of linguistic studies, Through the Language Glass arrives at fascinating conclusions about how language impacts our perception of the world.

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