
Explorations in Linguistic Relativity
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- EXPLORATIONS IN LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- References
- Towards a 'Full Pedigree' of the 'Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis': From Locke to Lucy
- 1. Introductory remarks
- 2. The Humboldtian tradition of linguistic worldview
- 3. Humboldtian ethnolinguistics in North America and SWH
- 4. Concluding remarks
- Notes
- References
- How relativistic are Humboldt's "Weltansichten"?
- 1. Language and thought
- 2. Relativity
- 3. Final remark
- Notes
- References
- When is 'Linguistic Relativity' Whorf's Linguistic Relativity?
- 1. Introductory comments
- 2. Whorf s definitions of the linguistic relativity principle
- 3. The role of the construct 'isolate of experience' in Whorf s reasoning
- 4. The place of analogical projection in the linguistic relativity picture
- 5. Isolates of experience conceptualized as occurring in the external field
- 6. Isolates conceptualized as occurring in the egoic or internal field of experience
- 7. Linguistic relativity in the context of relativisms in general
- References
- Linguistic Relativity and Translation
- 1. Historical overview
- 2. Culture, context and translatability
- 3. Conclusion
- References
- Humboldt, Whorf and the Roots of Ecolinguistics
- 1. Introduction
- 2. On the intellectual roots of ecolinguistics
- 3. Limits to relativity
- References
- Loci of Diversity and Convergence in Thought and Language
- 1. Constrained diversity in thought and sound
- 2. Components of thought
- 3. Ways of organizing thought
- 4. Repeated verbalizations of the same experience
- 5. Translation
- 6. Categories
- 7. Shadow meanings
- 8. Orientations
- 9. Constructions
- 10. Summary
- Note
- References
- On Linguocentrism
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Current speculation on the evolution of language
- 3. Semiotics, conceptualization, and culture
- 4. Interactional intelligence and language
- 5. The inescapability of (meta-)language: Wierzbicka's position
- 6. The separation (or not) of the study of "language" and "culture
- 7. Implications for theory of language, culture, and thought, and for research on linguistic relativity
- 8. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- From the Jurassic Dark: Linguistic Relativity as Evolutionary Necessity
- 1. Evolutionary biology
- 2. Social reality
- 3. Perception
- 4. Conclusion
- Note
- References
- Neuro-Cognitive Structure in the Interplay of Language and Thought
- 1. Five basic properties of mental models
- 2. What are we asking?
- 3. The cortical information system
- 4. Learning looms large
- 5. The proximity principle
- 6. The language cortex
- 7. Top-down effects in perception
- 8. The basic puzzle and a solution
- References
- Language and Thought: Collective Tools for Individual Use
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The kinship case
- 3. Whorfian issues in the kinship study
- 4. The general theory of lexical semantics
- 5. The Whorfian connection
- Notes
- References
- Appendix
- Appendix A: Fanti kinship terminology, adapted from Kronenfeld (1973)
- Appendix B: Behavioral patterns, terminological patterns, and genealogical features, adapted from Kronenfeld (1975)
- Ontological Classifiers as Polycentric Categories, as Seen in Shona Class 3 Nouns
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methods
- 3. Discussion of Shona class 3
- 4. Categories that satisfy multiple constraints
- 5. Unexplained items
- 6. Discussion
- Notes
- References
- Linguistic Relativity and the Plasticity of Categorization: Universalism in a New Key
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Color and relativity
- 3. Perceptual universals
- 4. Universal cognitive dynamics
- 5. Variation
- 6. Vantages
- 7. Polysemy
- 8. Deactivating morphology
- 9. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Linguistic Relativity as a Function of Ideological Deixis
- 1. A story of stories: Susan Smith's wild ride
- 2. The BATTLE OF ICON AND CARICATURE
- 3. Ideological deixis
- 4. Linguistic relativity and the process of making sense
- Note
- References
- Data Sources
- Why We Subject Incorporate (in English): A Post-Whorfian View
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Subject incorporations in English
- 3. The motivation for and complementarity of SIs and OIs in English
- 4. Ergative patterns as 'covert' categories
- 5. Homage to Whorf and concluding remarks
- Notes
- References
- Metalinguistic Awareness in Linguistic Relativity: Cultural and Subcultural Practices Across Chinese Dialect Communities
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Metalinguistic awareness and linguistic relativity
- 3. Metalinguistic awareness and Han Chinese cultural practices
- 4. Metalinguistic awareness and subcultural practices across Chinese dialect communities
- 5. Dialect spread and the spread of dialect-based subcultural practices
- 6. Conclusion
- Acknowledgement
- Notes
- References
- Subject Index
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