John Gumperz / C. Levinson (eds.)

Rethinking Linguistic Relativity

Herausgeber: Gumperz, John Joseph; Levinson, Stephen C.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Linguistic relativity is the claim that culture, through language, affects the way in which we think, and especially our classification of the experienced world. This book reexamines ideas about linguistic relativity in the light of new evidence and changes in theoretical climate.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 732g
• ISBN-13: 9780521448901
• ISBN-10: 0521448905
• Artikelnr.: 21591954

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: linguistic relativity re-examined John J. Gumperz and
Stephen C. Levinson; Part I. Linguistic determinism: the interface between
language and thought: 2. Empirical research and linguistic relativity John
A.Lucy; 3. From 'thought and language' to 'thinking for speaking' Dan I.
Slobin; 4. Intra-speaker relativity Paul Kay; 5. Imaging in iron, or
thought is not inner speech Charles M. Keller and Janet Dixon Keller; Part
II. Universals and variation in language and culture: 6. The origin of
children's spatial semantic categories: cognitive versus linguistic
determinants Melissa Bowerman; 6. Relativity in spatial conception and
description Stephen C. Levinson; 9. Cognitive limits to conceptual
relativity: the limiting-case of religious ontologies Pascal Boyer; Part
III. Interpretation in cultural context: 8. Language form and communicative
practices William F. Hanks; 10. Projections, transpositions, and relativity
John B. Haviland; 11. Communities, commonalities, and communication Herbert
H. Clark; Part IV. The social matrix: culture, praxis, and discourse: 12.
The linguistic and cultural relativity of conversational inference John J.
Gumperz; 13. Linguistic resources for socializing humanity Elinor Ochs; 14.
When animals become 'rounded' and 'feminine': conceptual categories and
linguistic classification in a multilingual setting Elsa Gomez-Imbert;
Index.