Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis - Couverture souple

Lucy, John A.

 
9780521387972: Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
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ISBN 10 : 0521387973 ISBN 13 : 9780521387972
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Language Diversity and Thought examines the Sapir–Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language we speak affects the way we think about reality. Adopting an historical approach, the book reviews the various lines of empirical inquiry which arose in America in response to the ideas of anthropologists Edward Sapir and Benjamin L. Whorf. John Lucy asks why there has been so little fruitful empirical research on this problem and what lessons can be learned from past work. He then proposes a new, more adequate approach to future empirical research. A companion volume, Grammatical Categories and Cognition, illustrates the proposed approach with an original case study. The study compares the grammar of American English with that of Yucatec Maya, an indigenous language spoken in southeastern Mexico, and then identifies distinctive patterns of thinking related to the differences between the two languages.

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Language Diversity and Thought examines the Sapir–Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language we speak affects the way we think about reality. Adopting an historical approach, the book reviews the various lines of empirical inquiry which arose in America in response to the ideas of anthropologists Edward Sapir and Benjamin L. Whorf. John Lucy asks why there has been so little fruitful empirical research on this problem and what lessons can be learned from past work. He then proposes a new, more adequate approach to future empirical research. A companion volume, Grammatical Categories and Cognition, illustrates the proposed approach with an original case study. The study compares the grammar of American English with that of Yucatec Maya, an indigenous language spoken in southeastern Mexico, and then identifies distinctive patterns of thinking related to the differences between the two languages.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521387973
ISBN 13 
9780521387972
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
346
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9780521384186: Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis

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ISBN 10 :  0521384184 ISBN 13 :  9780521384186
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1992
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