Through the Language Glass, Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

complex grammar and

Geiger’s sequence and

Torres Straits study on

pronouns

“purple”

race

Ray, Verne

“red”

“black” and

as first color named

Geiger’s sequence and

Homer and

Magnus’s evolution of color sense and

primitive people and

wavelength, energy, and retina and

red-green blindness

Regier, Terry

relativism

retina

Rivarol, Antoine de

Rivers, W. H. R.

Rodman, Robert

rod monochromats

rods

Romanian

Rotokas

Russell, Bertrand

Russian

gender system and

two blues (siniy-goluboy) and

Sanskrit

Sapir, Edward

Sarcee

Sassoon, Siegfried

Schleicher, August

Schliemann, Heinrich

Schmidt, Lauren

Schwarz, G. H.

Science

Scientific Club of Vienna

Semitic languages

sentence complexity

Sera, Maria

Shaw, George Bernard

ships, gender for

simplification patterns

Sioux Indians

sky, color of

Slavic languages

Some Things Worth Knowing

Sorbian

sound inventory

South American Indian languages

Spanish

color terms and

gender system and

spatial coordinate systems

egocentric

geographic

influence of, on thought

lack of egocentric

Steiner, George

Stubbs, George

Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age (Gladstone)

Stuff of Thought, The (Pinker)

subordination

Sumerian

Supyire

Swahili

Swedish

“syntactic universals”

Syriac

systemic complexity

Tagalog

“Tale of the Fishwife and Its Sad Fate” (Twain)

Talmud

Tamil

Tarahumara

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilich

Teda tribe

television

Tennyson, Alfred (Lord)

Thai

Thomson, James

thought, influence of language on

assumptions about, vs. demonstrations of

color and

directions on

future tense and

gender systems and

Hopi time and

Humboldt on

lack of conceptual vocabulary and

Muller, Whitney, and Clifford on

“prison-house” concept and

Sapir-Whorf theories and

scientific research on

what may vs. what must be conveyed and

“three blind mice” experiment