Linguistic Relativities - Language Diversity and Modern Thought

Informationen zum Autor John Leavitt is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Montréal. Klappentext Does your language influence your thought and world view? This book is a history of responses to this question since the 1500s. Zusammenfassung Does the language you speak influence your thought and world view? This book offers a history of responses to this question over the last half millennium: usually a simple yes (Renaissance! Romantics! Neoromantics) or no (Enlightenment! most cognitive science)! but sometimes more nuanced explorations (Boasian linguistics! recent work in cognition). Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. A passage to modernity; 2. One reason, one world, many monads; 3. The world at war with reason: Britain and France in the eighteenth century; 4. Multiplicity and the Romantic explosion; 5. Essences and universals through the nineteenth century; 6. Boas and the linguistic multiverse; 7. Linguistic relativity: Sapir, Lee, and Whorf; 8. The other side of the mirror: a twentieth-century essentialism; 9. The rise of cognition and the repression of languages; 10. The return of the repressed; Conclusion.

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• Authors: John Leavitt, John (Professor Leavitt, Leavitt John
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521767828
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76782-8
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Social and cultural anthropology, Cognition and cognitive psychology