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A brilliant and provocative exploration of how the cultures we live in affect the languages we speak and how we think of the world around us.

About the Author

Guy Deutscher is the author of The Unfolding of Language- The Evolution of Mankind's Greatest Invention. Formerly a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, he is an honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He lives in Surrey with his wife and two daughters.

Reviews

Jaw-droppingly wonderful ... A marvellous and surprising book which left me breathless and dizzy with delight. The ironic, playful tone at the beginning gradates into something serious that is never pompous, intellectually and historically complex and yet always pellucidly laid out. Plus I learned the word plaidoyer which I shall do my utmost to use every day
*Stephen Fry*

Fabulously interesting ... a remarkably rich, provocative and intelligent work of pop science
*Sunday Times*

Brilliant [and] beautifully written
*Financial Times*

So robustly researched and wonderfully told that it is hard to put down
*New Scientist*

A delight to read
*Spectator*

Fascinating
*Alex Bellos, author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland*

The book that I've found myself telling other people about most has been Through The Language Glass, Guy Deutscher's gripping pop-science book about linguistics and neuropsychology, describing how language shapes our perception of reality
*Spectator*

Playful and provocative ... Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics
*The Observer*

A sceptical reappraisal of the popular, and often misunderstood, notion that language influences thought
*Economist*