A book exploring the influence of language on worldview. - Title: The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages - Author: Guy Deutscher - Price: 2400 yen - Publisher: Impress ・The controversy sparked by the description "wine-dark sea" in Homer's epics "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," suggesting that the color perception of ancient Greeks differed from that of modern people. ・Overcoming the conflict between the naive question: "Do primitive people speak primitive languages?" and the long-standing linguist's slogan: "All languages are equally complex," the book introduces what has been revealed through objective statistical surveys: "Smaller societies tend to have more complex grammatical structures," and "There seems to be a relationship between the complexity of sound systems and social structure." And many other very interesting topics. Thank you for viewing.