Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis

by John A. Lucy

Book Overview

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.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521387973
• ISBN13: 9780521387972
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Relativism defended.

With perhaps the exception of moral relativism, all forms of Relativism are out of fashion at the moment, a point Lucy is clear to point out. Lucy is to be congratulated on sticking with the issue, showing that relativism is far from dead. His book is based on clear scientific research, and is most convincing. This book should be read by all students of anthropology and linguistics, but more so by cognitive science students who are being taught that relativism is a dead issue. An excellent book!