John A. Lucy

Language Diversity and Thought

A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis

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Produktbeschreibung

'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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780521387972
• ISBN-10: 0521387973
• Artikelnr.: 21097865

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Development of the linguistic relativity hypothesis in America: Boas and Sapir
2. Development of the linguistic relativity hypothesis in America: Whorf
3. Approaches in anthropological linguistics: typical ethnographic case studies
4. Approaches in anthropological linguistics: theoretical and methodological advances
5. Approaches in comparative psycholinguistics: experimental studies on the lexical coding of colour
6. Approaches in comparative psycholinguistics: experimental studies on grammatical categories
7. Overview and assessment of previous empirical research
Notes
References
Index.