John Leavitt

Linguistic Relativities

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Produktbeschreibung

Does your language influence your thought and world view? This book is a history of responses to this question since the 1500s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781107558632
• ISBN-10: 1107558638
• Artikelnr.: 42966529

Autorenporträt

John Leavitt is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Montréal.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. A passage to modernity
2. One reason, one world, many monads
3. The world at war with reason: Britain and France in the eighteenth century
4. Multiplicity and the Romantic explosion
5. Essences and universals through the nineteenth century
6. Boas and the linguistic multiverse
7. Linguistic relativity: Sapir, Lee, and Whorf
8. The other side of the mirror: a twentieth-century essentialism
9. The rise of cognition and the repression of languages
10. The return of the repressed
Conclusion.