Books by Guy Deutscher

Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher

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Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said: ‘The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.’ Deutscher cleverly and really comprehensively describes the takedown of this worldview, which happened with Chomsky.

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Through the Language Glass
by Guy Deutscher

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The Language Instinct
by Steven Pinker

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The First Word
by Christine Kenneally

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In the Land of Invented Languages
by Arika Okrent

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The Genius of Language
by Wendy Lessen (editor)

The best books on Language and the Mind, recommended by Lane Greene

Does the world look different in other languages? Are there words that cannot be translated? Is it OK to say disinterested when you mean uninterested? Lane Greene, who writes the Economist’s “Johnson” column on language, dispels some of the popular but misguided ideas many of us have about language.