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Indlæser... Rethinking Linguistic Relativityaf John J. Gumperz (Redaktør), Stephen C. Levinson (Redaktør)
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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. Parts I and II address the classical issues in the relation between thought and language, and the extent of linguistic and cultural universals. Parts III and IV show how changes in our understanding of meaning require that we look at how context enters into interpretation, and how context is constituted in social interaction. The editors have provided a substantial introduction which examines changes in thinking about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in the light of developments in anthropology, linguistics, and cognitive science; and also introductions to each section which will be of especial use to students. No library descriptions found. |
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Linguistic relativity as a form of deixis (Gumperz and Levinson)
Not "thought" and "language," but "thinking for speaking (Lucy)
The idea that there is no linguistic relativity because framing distinctions are also present within languages (e.g., using "strictly speaking" vs. "technically") and this shows that the idea of the "mindset" of a language is nonsense (you can say the same about dialectal variation, etc.) (Paul Kay)--I write this down not because I agree but only because it is a widespread argument but only makes sense if you have no sense of gradient difference and think only categorically separate deterministic boxes constitute linguistic relativity--I can choose to speak one way and you can choose another in English, and neither of those are Swahili, just the same way as there is an infinite number of numbers between one and ten and none of them are eleven, end of story.
Prelinguistic thought--what a blacksmith does when he makes a knife, described--the role of words and how they get used (for example between a smith and apprentice or client) to evoke image schemata in ways that constitute special shared clusters of ideas. Pretty cool reading for those of us used to thinking in words, aside from its relativistic implications.
There were others! I should have been more conscientious in writing them down! ( )