透过语言这面镜子
Through the language glass
Guy Deutscher · 初版 2010 年
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为什么值得读
- 深入审视萨丕尔-沃尔夫假说与思维边界
- 探讨各语言中颜色词汇等认知差异现象
- 视角引人入胜且富有知识启发性
本书直面了一个棘手问题：文化是否塑造了语言，语言又是否塑造了文化，二者究竟是如何相互作用的？长期以来，语言学界一直避免宣称语言与其使用者的文化之间存在任何关联：关于意大利语的浪漫和德语的正步般井然有序的过于简单化（乃至偏执）的闲谈，让严肃的思想家对整个课题避之不及。但如今，著名语言学家Guy Deutscher敢于重开这一话题。文化能否影响语言，反之亦然？不同的语言是否会导致使用者的思维产生差异？我们对世界的感知是否
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关于这一整套话题，有一本好书专门讲萨丕尔-沃尔夫假说（Sapir-Whorf hypothesis）[1]——也就是你的语言基本决定了你的思维方式（比如用来形容雪的100个词、颜色词汇的多寡等等）：盖伊·多伊彻（Guy Deutscher）写的《语言透镜：为什么不同语言看世界大不相同》（Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages）。太长不看（TL;DR）：不，语言并不能决定你眼中的世界。可能存在一个著名的例外——某个地方有个部落（忘了……
There's a good book about this whole complex of themes, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis [1] that basically your language determines the way you think (100 words for snow, more/fewer words for colours, etc.): Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher. TL;DR: no, language doesn't determine how you see the world. There might be one notable exception - there's a tribe somewhere (forgot…
关于这个话题有一本非常引人入胜的书，就是盖伊·多伊彻写的《语言透镜》（Through the Language Glass）。
There's a fascinating book on this topic, that is Guy Deutscher: Through the Language Glass.
如果你对这方面感兴趣，盖伊·多伊彻写的《语言透镜：词汇如何为你的世界着色》（Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World）绝对是必读书目。
If this interests you, Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World by Guy Deutscher is a must read.
在盖伊·多伊彻的书《语言透镜：为什么不同语言看世界大不相同》（Through the language glass: Why the world looks different in other languages）里，针对这类问题有很多非常有趣的讨论。
There's quite a bit of interesting discussion of this sort of thing in Guy Deutscher's book "Through the language glass: Why the world looks different in other languages".
……来自：史蒂文·约翰逊（Steven Johnson）的《创新的自然简史》（The Natural History of Innovation）、凯文·凯利（Kevin Kelly）的《技术想要什么》（What Technology Wants）、悉达多·穆克吉（Siddhartha Mukherjee）的《众病之王：癌症传》（The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer）。文化、社会与旅行类：《语言透镜：为什么不同语言看世界大不相同》，盖伊·多伊彻著；《甜美与鲜血：冲浪如何从夏威夷和加州走向全世界，并带来意想不到的后果》（Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, With Some Unexpected Results），迈克尔……
…From: The Natural History of Innovation. By Steven Johnson What Technology Wants. By Kevin Kelly The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. By Siddhartha Mukherjee Culture, society and travel Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages. By Guy Deutscher Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, With Some Unexpected Results. By Michael…
……俄语里的浅蓝色。这本书也是为了回应大众对语言相对论的普遍看法和浪漫化想象，特别是为了回应另一位语言学家盖伊·多伊彻的书《语言透镜》（Through the Language Glass）——多伊彻在书里迎合了“语言有助于塑造我们思维方式”的观念，那确实是一本好书，但也远远没有到“说其他语言的人能看到更多颜色”的地步。[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXBQrz_b-Ng
…light blue in Russian. The book is also in response to the general public's view and romanticism of linguistic relativity and in particular in response to a book by another linguist Guy Deutscher titled 'Through the Language Glass', where Guy feeds into the perception that language helps shape the way we think, and it is a good book but it still doesn't get close to saying that other languages see more colours. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXBQrz_b-Ng