Rethinking linguistic relativity / edited by John J. Gumperz and Stephen C. Levinson
1997, 2nd edition. Rethinking linguistic relativity / edited by John J. Gumperz and Stephen C. Levinson. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #424353
ISBN: 0521448905
Physical description; viii, 488 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents; Introduction: linguistic relativity re-examined / John Gumperz, Stephen C. Levinson -- Linguistic determinism: the interface between language and thought -- Introduction to part I / John Gumperz, Stephen C. Levinson -- The scope of linguistic relativity: an analysis and review of empirical research / John A. Lucy -- From "thought and language" to "thinking for speaking" / Dan I. Slobin -- Intra-speaker relativity / Paul Kay -- Imaging in iron, or thought is not inner speech / Charles M. Keller, Janet Dixon Keller -- Universals and variation in language and culture -- Introduction to part II / Stephen C. Levinson -- The origins of children's spatial semantic categories cognitive versus linguistic determinants / Melissa Bowerman -- Relativity in spatial conception and description / Stephen C. Levinson -- Cognitive limits to conceptual relativity: the limiting-case of religious ontologies / Pascal Boyer -- Interpretation in cultural context -- Introduction to part III / John J. Gumperz, Stephen C. Levinson -- Language form and communicative practices / William F. Hanks -- Projections, transpositions, and relativity / John B. Haviland -- Communities, commonalities, and communication / Herbert H. Clark -- The social matrix: culture, praxis, and discourse -- Introduction to part IV / John J. Gumperz -- The linguistic and cultural relativity of inference / John J. Gumperz -- Linguistic resources for socializing humanity / Elinor Ochs.
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