Explorations In Linguistic Relativity

Author : Martin Pütz,Marjolyn Verspoor
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027237064

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Explorations in Linguistic Relativity by Martin Pütz,Marjolyn Verspoor Pdf

About a century after the year Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) was born, his theory complex is still the object of keen interest to linguists. Rencently, scholars have argued that it was not his theory complex itself, but an over-simplified, reduced section taken out of context that has become known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that has met with so much resistance among linguists over the last few decades. Not only did Whorf present his views much more subtly than most people would believe, but he also dealt with a great number of other issues in his work. Taking Whorf's own notion of linguistic relativity as a starting point, this volume explores the relation between language, mind and experience through its historical development, Whorf's own writing, its misinterpretations, various theoretical and methodological issues and a closer look at a few specific issues in his work.

Author : Susanne Niemeier,René Dirven
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : 9027237050

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Evidence for Linguistic Relativity by Susanne Niemeier,René Dirven Pdf

This volume has arisen from the 26th International LAUD Symposium on "Humboldt and Whorf Revisited. Universal and Culture-Specific Conceptualizations in Grammar and Lexis." While contrasting two or more languages, the papers in this volume either provide empirical evidence confirming hypotheses related to linguistic relativity, or deal with methodological issues of empirical research.These new approaches to Whorf's hypotheses do not focus on mere theorizing but provide more and more empirical evidence gathered over the last years. They prove in a very sophisticated way that Whorf's ideas were very lucid ones, even if Whorf's insights were framed in a terminology which lacked the flexibility of linguistic categories developed over the last quarter of this century, especially in cognitive linguistics. To date, there is sufficient proof to claim that linguistic relativity is indeed a vital issue, and the current volume confirms a more general trend for rehabilitating Whorf's theory complex and also offers evidence for it. It contains articles written by scholars from various fields of linguistics including phonology, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, historical linguistics, anthropological linguistics and (cross-)cultural semantics, which all contribute to a re-evaluation and partial reformulation of Whorf's thinking.

Author : John J. Gumperz,Stephen C. Levinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521448905

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Rethinking Linguistic Relativity by John J. Gumperz,Stephen C. Levinson Pdf

Linguistic relativity is the claim that culture, through language, affects the way in which we think, and especially our classification of the experienced world. This book reexamines ideas about linguistic relativity in the light of new evidence and changes in theoretical climate. The editors have provided a substantial introduction that summarizes changes in thinking about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in the light of developments in anthropology, linguistics and cognitive science. Introductions to each section will be of especial use to students.

Author : Susanne Niemeier,René Dirven
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027284464

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Evidence for Linguistic Relativity by Susanne Niemeier,René Dirven Pdf

This volume has arisen from the 26th International LAUD Symposium on “Humboldt and Whorf Revisited. Universal and Culture-Specific Conceptualizations in Grammar and Lexis”. While contrasting two or more languages, the papers in this volume either provide empirical evidence confirming hypotheses related to linguistic relativity, or deal with methodological issues of empirical research.These new approaches to Whorf’s hypotheses do not focus on mere theorizing but provide more and more empirical evidence gathered over the last years. They prove in a very sophisticated way that Whorf’s ideas were very lucid ones, even if Whorf’s insights were framed in a terminology which lacked the flexibility of linguistic categories developed over the last quarter of this century, especially in cognitive linguistics. To date, there is sufficient proof to claim that linguistic relativity is indeed a vital issue, and the current volume confirms a more general trend for rehabilitating Whorf’s theory complex and also offers evidence for it. It contains articles written by scholars from various fields of linguistics including phonology, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, historical linguistics, anthropological linguistics and (cross-)cultural semantics, which all contribute to a re-evaluation and partial reformulation of Whorf’s thinking.

Author : Pieter A. M. Seuren
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191504730

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From Whorf to Montague by Pieter A. M. Seuren Pdf

This book explores the relations between language, the world, the minds of individual speakers, and the collective minds of particular language communities. Pieter Seuren examines the status of abstract rule systems underlying speech and considers how much computational power may be attributed to the human mind. The book opens with chapters on the social reality of language, the ancient question of the primacy of language or thought, and the relation between universal and language-specific features. Professor Seuren then considers links between language, logic, and mathematics: he suggests the facts of language require a theory with abstract principles, and that grammars should be seen as mediating between propositionally structured thoughts and systems, such as speech, for the production of utterances. He argues that grammars are neither autonomous nor independent of meaning. He concludes by considering how a fundamental rephrasing of the basic principles of logic could reconnect it with cognition and language and involve a principled rejection of possible-world semantics.

Author : Zhaohong Han,Teresa Cadierno
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781847692771

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Linguistic Relativity in SLA by Zhaohong Han,Teresa Cadierno Pdf

Crosslinguistic influence is an established area of second language research, and as such, it has been subject to extensive scrutiny. Although the field has come a long way in understanding its general character, many issues still remain a conundrum, for example, why does transfer appear selective, and why does transfer never seem to go away for certain linguistic elements? Unlike most existing studies, which have focused on transfer at the surface form level, the present volume examines the relationship between thought and language, in particular thought as shaped by first language development and use, and its interaction with second language use. The chapters in this collection conceptually explore and empirically investigate the relevance of Slobin's thinking-for-speaking hypothesis to adult second language acquisition, offering compelling and enlightening evidence of the fundamental nature of crosslinguistic influence in adult second language acquisition "This is a landmark publication - the first to concertedly address the implications for SLA of Slobin's thinking-for-speaking hypothesis. Do processes of conceptualisation that L1s predispose speakers to affect their L2 production, and if so in what ways? Can we `re-think' for L2 speaking, and what cognitive abilities enable this? The research issues this book raises are fundamentally important for SLA theory and pedagogy alike." Peter Robinson, Professor of Linguistics and SLA, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan "Language affects how we think. Slobin's (1996) thinking-for-speaking hypothesis concerns the ways that native language directs speakers' attention to pick those characteristics of events that are readily encodable therein. In this impressive collection, Han and Cadierno marshal strong support for effects of native language upon second language use, i.e. for `rethinking-for-speaking'. A must-read for anybody interested in linguistic relativity and transfer in SLA." Nick Ellis, Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan, USA

Author : John A. Lucy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1992-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521387973

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Language Diversity and Thought by John A. Lucy Pdf

An examination of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis on the relationship between grammar and thought.

Author : Caleb Everett
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110308143

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Linguistic Relativity by Caleb Everett Pdf

The claim that crosslinguistic disparities foster differences in nonlinguistic thought, often referred to as 'linguistic relativity', has for some time been the subject of intense debate. For much of that time the debate was not informed by much experimental work. Recently, however, there has been an explosion of research on linguistic relativity, carried out by numerous scholars interested in the interaction between language and nonlinguistic cognition. This book surveys the rapidly accruing research on this topic, much of it carried out in the last decade. Structured so as to be accessible to students and scholars in linguistics, psychology, and anthropology, it first introduces crucial concepts in the study of language and cognition. It then explores the relevant experimentally oriented research, focusing independently on the evidence for relativistic effects in spatial orientation, temporal perception, number recognition, color discrimination, object/substance categorization, gender construal, as well as other facets of cognition. This is the only book to extensively survey the recent work on linguistic relativity, and should serve as a critical resource for those concerned with the topic.

Author : Stephen C. Levinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521011965

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Space in Language and Cognition by Stephen C. Levinson Pdf

Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This 2003 book shows that even in a core cognitive domain like spatial thinking, language influences how people think, memorize and reason about spatial relations and directions. After outlining a typology of spatial coordinate systems in language and cognition, it is shown that not all languages use all types, and that non-linguistic cognition mirrors the systems available in the local language. The book reports on collaborative, interdisciplinary research, involving anthropologists, linguists and psychologists, conducted in many languages and cultures around the world, which establishes this robust correlation. The overall results suggest that thinking in the cognitive sciences underestimates the transformative power of language on thinking. The book will be of interest to linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers, and especially to students of spatial cognition.

Author : John Leavitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139494878

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Linguistic Relativities by John Leavitt Pdf

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.

Author : Albert Silverstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317357148

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Human Communication by Albert Silverstein Pdf

Originally published in 1974. This is an introductory text on the basic processes in communication with each chapter written by an eminent theorist in one of the main disciplines dealing with communication. It both surveys the range of issues and presents the individual author’s personal theoretical approach in each case. Though introductory, the chapters here, while attempting to be representative and to avoid unnecessary jargon, are careful to not oversimplify. Each author presents an original thesis providing a first-hand glimpse of scholarly work in the discipline showing the great diversity among the approaches and levels of analysis used in the study of communication. Of great usefulness to students of psychology, language, linguistics, media and social history.

Author : Harald Haarmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110867541

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Language in Its Cultural Embedding by Harald Haarmann Pdf

Author : René Dirven,Marjolijn Verspoor
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295415

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Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics by René Dirven,Marjolijn Verspoor Pdf

Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of the more established areas in linguistics such as lexicology, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, historical linguistics, and language typology and on some of the newer areas such as cross-cultural semantics, pragmatics, text linguistics and contrastive linguistics. In each of these areas language is explored as part of a cognitive system comprising perception, emotion, categorisation, abstraction processes, and reasoning. All these cognitive abilities may interact with language and be influenced by language. Thus the study of language in a sense becomes the study of the way we express and exchange ideas and thoughts. This Second Revised Edition is corrected, updated and expanded. Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is clearly presented and organized after having been tested in several courses in various countries. Includes exercises (solutions to be found on the Internet).

Author : Ferruccio Rossi-Landi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110812893

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Ideologies of Linguistic Relativity by Ferruccio Rossi-Landi Pdf

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Author : Fabio Alves,Arnt Jakobsen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351712460

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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Cognition by Fabio Alves,Arnt Jakobsen Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Cognition provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of how translation and cognition relate to each other, discussing the most important issues in the fledgling sub-discipline of Cognitive Translation Studies (CTS), from foundational to applied aspects. With a strong focus on interdisciplinarity, the handbook surveys concepts and methods in neighbouring disciplines that are concerned with cognition and how they relate to translational activity from a cognitive perspective. Looking at different types of cognitive processes, this volume also ventures into emergent areas such as neuroscience, artificial intelligence, cognitive ergonomics and human–computer interaction. With an editors’ introduction and 30 chapters authored by leading scholars in the field of Cognitive Translation Studies, this handbook is the essential reference and resource for students and researchers of translation and cognition and will also be of interest to those working in bilingualism, second-language acquisition and related areas.