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by John A. Lucy


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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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'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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  • Title Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
  • Author John A. Lucy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 1992-07-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521387972 / 0521387973
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.93 x 5.84 x 0.73 in (22.68 x 14.83 x 1.85 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Thought and thinking, Language and languages - Variation
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91027644
  • Dewey Decimal Code 401.9
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