Guy Deutscher (1) (1969–)
Author of Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
About the Author
Guy Deutscher was born in Tel Aviv in 1969. He received an undergraduate degree in Math and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Cambridge. Afterward, he became a fellow in historical linguistics at St. John's College at Cambridge. He later became a honorary research fellow at the show more University of Manchester and was a professor in the department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages at the University of Leiden in Holland. He has written several books including Syntactic Change in Akkadian (2000), The Unfolding of Language (2005), and Through the Language Glass (2010). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Guy Deutscher
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (2010) 1,284 copies, 42 reviews
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (2005) 1,201 copies, 33 reviews
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- Birthdate
- 1969
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Israel (birth)
- Birthplace
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Places of residence
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Education
- University of Cambridge (PhD)
- Occupations
- linguist
- Organizations
- University of Leiden
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- Works
- 5
- Also by
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- Members
- 2,502
- Popularity
- #10,263
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 75
- ISBNs
- 46
- Languages
- 7
The book is crammed with historical and linguistic details that were new to me. For example, Deutscher begins with an account of Victorian Prime Minister William Gladstone’s impressive analysis of color imagery in Homer and his argument that concludes that the Ancient Greeks could not see the color blue.
One caveat: I wish the appendix on the basic science of color vision had been worked into the text.… (more)