Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking
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- 19 Lesestunden
Classic case studies surveying the use, role and function of language and speech in social life.
Studien zu den sozialen und kulturellen Grundlagen der Sprache Reihe
Diese Reihe taucht tief in die faszinierende Verbindung von Sprache, Gesellschaft und Kultur ein. Sie untersucht, wie soziale Kontexte und kulturelle Normen sprachliche Bedeutungen und Funktionen prägen. Jeder Band leistet substantielle ethnografische und theoretische Beiträge zum Verständnis von Sprachvariationen in verschiedenen Kulturen. Die Sammlung ist unverzichtbare Lektüre für Wissenschaftler der linguistischen Anthropologie, Soziolinguistik und verwandter Gebiete.
Language Diversity and Thought
A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
Language Diversity and Thought examines 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. Adopting a historical approach, the book reviews the various lines of empirical inquiry that arose in America in response to the ideas of anthropologists Edward Sapir and Benjamin L. Whorf. John Lucy asks why there has been so little fruitful empirical research on this problem and what lessons can be learned from past work. He then proposes a new, more adequate approach to future empirical research. A companion volume, Grammatical Categories and Cognition, illustrates the proposed approach with an original case study. The study compares the grammar of American English with that of Yucatec Maya, an indigenous language spoken in southeastern Mexico, and then identifies distinctive patterns of thinking related to the differences between the two languages.