Linguistic relativities : language diversity and modern thought / John Leavitt.
"There are more than six thousand human languages, each one unique. For the last five hundred years, people have argued about how important language differences are. This book traces that history and shows how language differences have generally been treated either as of no importance or as all...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core |
| Summary: | "There are more than six thousand human languages, each one unique. For the last five hundred years, people have argued about how important language differences are. This book traces that history and shows how language differences have generally been treated either as of no importance or as all-important, depending on broader approaches taken to human life and knowledge. It was only in the twentieth century, in the work of Franz Boas and his students, that an attempt was made to engage seriously with the reality of language specificities. Since the 1950s, this work has been largely presented as yet another claim that language differences are all-important by cognitive scientists and philosophers who believe that such differences are of no importance. This book seeks to correct this misrepresentation and point to the new directions taken by the Boasians, directions now being recovered in the most recent work in psychology and linguistics"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 245 pages) |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511975058 9780511975059 0511987129 9780511987120 0511988931 9780511988936 0511990723 9780511990724 0511991703 9780511991707 0511992688 9780511992681 1282967053 9781282967052 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511975059 |