Format:
XI, 328 S.
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graph. Darst.
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
0521384184
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0521387973
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:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 308 - 321) and index
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Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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General orientation -- Focus of the present research -- Overview of the research -- Development of the linguistic relativity hypothesis in America: Boas and Sapir -- Language as the reflection of culture: Boas -- Language and the relativity of the form of thought: Sapir -- Development of the linguistic relativity hypothesis in America: Whorf -- The linguistic analysis of experience -- The relation of languages to thought and culture -- Approaches in anthropological linguistics: typical ethnographic case studies -- Grammar as a direct reflection of culture: the work of Lee -- Grammar as language, vocabulary as culture: the work of Mathiot -- Thematic parallels between language and culture: the work of Hoijer -- Approaches in anthropological linguistics: theoretical and methodological advances -- Controlled comparison of structural diversity -- Diversity in the cultural uses of language -- Susceptibility to awareness of language structure and function -- Approaches in comparative psycholinguistics: experimental studies on the lexical coding of color -- The psycholinguistic approach to the relativity question -- Linguistic structure as a determinant of color cognition -- Color cognition as a determinant of linguistic structure -- Approaches in comparative psycholinguistics: experimental studies on grammatical categories -- Form classes and habitual classification -- Logical connectors and formal reasoning -- Overall conclusions -- Overview and assessment of previous empirical research -- Overview of past empirical research.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese
;
Denken
;
Sprache
;
Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese
;
Sprachvariante
;
Denken
