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Grammatical Categories and Cognition: A Case Study of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language)

By John A. Lucy

Book information

Year
1996
ISBN
0521566207, 9780521566209
Open Library ID
OL7746573M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6252219 bytes)
Pages
228\225
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Психолингвистика

Description

John Lucy uses original, empirical data to examine the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language that we speak affects the way we think about reality. The author compares the grammar of American English with that of the Yucatec Maya, an indigenous language spoken in Southeastern Mexico, focusing on differences in the number marking patterns of the two languages. He then identifies distinctive patterns of thought relating to these differences by means of a systematic assessment of memory and classification preferences among speakers of both languages.

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