Myriad of Tongues - How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think

Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, space, color, odor, and taste is substantially influenced by language, so that basic interactions with the world vary greatly across peoples.

About the author

Caleb Everett, Professor of Anthropology and of Linguistics and Cognitive Science and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Delaware, is the author of Numbers and the Making of Us and Linguistic Relativity: Evidence across Languages and Cognitive Domains.

Summary

Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, space, color, odor, and taste is substantially influenced by language, so that basic interactions with the world vary greatly across peoples.

Product details

• Authors: Caleb Everett, Everett Caleb
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9780674976580
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97658-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Social and cultural anthropology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Historical and comparative linguistics