Linguistic relativities language diversity and modern thought
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-impor...
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Cambridge University Press
2011
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Table of Contents:
- A passage to modernity
- One reason, one world, many monads
- The world at war with reason: Britain and France in the eighteenth century
- Multiplicity and the Romantic explosion
- Essences and universals through the nineteenth century
- Boas and the linguistic multiverse
- Linguistic relativity: Sapir, Lee, and Whorf
- The other side of the mirror: a twentieth-century essentialism
- The rise of cognition and the repression of languages
- The return of the repressed
- Conclusion