UID:
almafu_9960119255202883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 328 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-62084-5
Series Statement:
Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; 12
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-38797-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-38418-4
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511620843
