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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 June 2012
    02 July 1992
    ISBN:
    9780511620843
    9780521387972
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511620843
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.565kg, 344 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Sociolinguistics, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language (12)
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    Subjects:
    Sociolinguistics, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language (12)
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    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.

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