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Linguistic Relativities - 9780521767828

Un libro in lingua di Leavitt John edito da CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2010

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There are thousands of 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. It shows how the same arguments have come up again and again, with language diversity being seen either as of no importance or as all-important, depending on broader views of human life and knowledge. A more adequate attempt to engage with language specificities emerged in the twentieth century, in the work of Franz Boas and his students. Since the 1950s, this work has been largely dismissed as yet another claim that language differences are all-important, particularly by cognitive scientists and philosophers, who see such differences as peripheral. This book seeks to correct this misrepresentation and point to the new directions taken by the Boasians, directions being rediscovered in the most recent work in psychology, linguistics, and anthropology.

Informazioni bibliografiche

  • Titolo del Libro in lingua: Linguistic Relativities
  • Lingua: English
  • AutoreLeavitt John
  • Editore: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Data di Pubblicazione: 31 Dicembre '10
  • Genere: Lingua Inglese
  • ISBN-10: 0521767822
  • EAN-13: 9780521767828