Language Diversity and Thought examines the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language that we speak affects the way we think about reality. Adopting a historical approach, the book reviews the various lines of empirical inquiry that 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.
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A review of anthropologists Edward Sapir's and Benjamin L. Whorf's linguistic relativity thesis leads to the proposal of a new approach for future empirical research and a comparison of American English with that of Yucatec Maya.
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This review is from: Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language) (Paperback)
With perhaps the exception of moral relativism, all forms of Relativism are out of fashion at the moment, a point Lucy is clear to point out. Lucy is to be congratulated on sticking with the issue, showing that relativism is far from dead. His book is based on clear scientific research, and is most convincing. This book should be read by all students of anthropology and linguistics, but more so by cognitive science students who are being taught that relativism is a dead issue. An excellent book!
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linguistic relativity issue, communication accuracy measure, linguistic codability, comparative psycholinguistics, nonlinguistic effects, formless item, phase nouns, functional relativity, nonlinguistic evidence, referential equivalence, covert categories, denotational value, labeled schemas, overt morphological marking, nonlinguistic variables, nonlinguistic behavior, counterfactual story, structural relativity, focal colors, lexical denotation, linguistic relativity hypothesis, relativity question, bilingual subjects, overt category, specialized thought Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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linguistic relativity issue, communication accuracy measure, linguistic codability, comparative psycholinguistics, nonlinguistic effects, formless item, phase nouns, functional relativity, nonlinguistic evidence, referential equivalence, covert categories, denotational value, labeled schemas, overt morphological marking, nonlinguistic variables, nonlinguistic behavior, counterfactual story, structural relativity, focal colors, lexical denotation, linguistic relativity hypothesis, relativity question, bilingual subjects, overt category, specialized thought Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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