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Author | : Martin Pütz |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2000-04-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027283753 |
Download Explorations in Linguistic Relativity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
About a century after the year Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) was born, his theory complex is still the object of keen interest to linguists. Rencently, scholars have argued that it was not his theory complex itself, but an over-simplified, reduced section taken out of context that has become known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that has met with so much resistance among linguists over the last few decades. Not only did Whorf present his views much more subtly than most people would believe, but he also dealt with a great number of other issues in his work. Taking Whorf’s own notion of linguistic relativity as a starting point, this volume explores the relation between language, mind and experience through its historical development, Whorf’s own writing, its misinterpretations, various theoretical and methodological issues and a closer look at a few specific issues in his work.
Author | : Kathrin Ehlen |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 2011-06-22 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 3640942434 |
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Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Metaphor and Metonymy, language: English, abstract: For hundreds of years scholars have been pondering on the interconnection of language and thought with in some points corresponding and in some points differing results. Two important protagonists in this discussion were Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) and Leo Weisgerber (1899-1985), whose positions to this question I am trying to set out in this paper. As the theme is very complex, I shall at least attempt to point out some aspects, which seem especially important to me. All the authors I consulted agree that Humboldt’s theory cannot be comprehended without considering the philosophical background. Not being a student of philosophy, conceiving this part of the paper was very difficult for me. I tried to do my best by picking out those aspects of his philosophical ideas which I thought indispensable for the understanding of his doctrines.
Author | : Kathrin Ehlen |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 2011-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 3640942345 |
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Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Metaphor and Metonymy, language: English, abstract: For hundreds of years scholars have been pondering on the interconnection of language and thought with in some points corresponding and in some points differing results. Two important protagonists in this discussion were Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) and Leo Weisgerber (1899-1985), whose positions to this question I am trying to set out in this paper. As the theme is very complex, I shall at least attempt to point out some aspects, which seem especially important to me. All the authors I consulted agree that Humboldt's theory cannot be comprehended without considering the philosophical background. Not being a student of philosophy, conceiving this part of the paper was very difficult for me. I tried to do my best by picking out those aspects of his philosophical ideas which I thought indispensable for the understanding of his doctrines.
Author | : E. Cunningham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2008-06-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781436515887 |
Download The Principle of Relativity (1914) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author | : Guohui Jiang |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2020-12-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 375262714X |
Download A Reinterpretation of Linguistic Relativity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As a vital issue not only of linguistics, but also of cognitive sciences, psychology, neurosciences, philosophy etc., engaging in the study of the relation between language, thought and reality, the doctrine of linguistic relativity (LR) went through upsurge-downturn-renaissance during more than 80 years, yet remains still unsolved puzzle for researchers of all these academic areas. Numerous treatises with valued ideas about this issue are continuously contributed to this theme; nevertheless, the study of LR has been stagnant up to nowadays. The reason is that, in my opinion, the study has deviated from the right direction, and this deviation might be boiled down to three basic concepts: The expository scope of LR. LR cannot and should not concern with (a) human speech-thinking action at the level of human biological-physiological traits, (b) human behaviours in all fields of his everyday life and (c) human spiritual activities in the areas of science, literature, philosophy, art etc. LR will explain that, constrained by the language, ordinary people are not aware that the reality they talk/think about does not coincide with the outside world they physically experience. The relativity. We should ponder the language-thought-reality relation in line with the original intention of Whorf when he proposed the principle of LR, i.e. the relativity should not be interpreted as the discrepancy between customs, modes of thinking and patterns of behavior of different linguistic communities on the basis of comparing peculiarities of their languages. The language. The doctrine of LR should concern with the human language as a complete and comprehensive system, but not with a set of sporadically observed phenomena and certain random interpretation of them. The linguistic intermediated world is eventually construed by the entire system of language, rather than an assembly of peculiar language items.
Author | : Robert L. Miller |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2015-06-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110823160 |
Download The Linguistic Relativity Principle and Humboldtian Ethnolinguistics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Susanne Niemeier |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Discourse analysis |
ISBN | : 9789027237057 |
Download Evidence for Linguistic Relativity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume has arisen from the 26th International LAUD Symposium on "Humboldt and Whorf Revisited. Universal and Culture-Specific Conceptualizations in Grammar and Lexis." While contrasting two or more languages, the papers in this volume either provide empirical evidence confirming hypotheses related to linguistic relativity, or deal with methodological issues of empirical research.These new approaches to Whorf's hypotheses do not focus on mere theorizing but provide more and more empirical evidence gathered over the last years. They prove in a very sophisticated way that Whorf's ideas were very lucid ones, even if Whorf's insights were framed in a terminology which lacked the flexibility of linguistic categories developed over the last quarter of this century, especially in cognitive linguistics. To date, there is sufficient proof to claim that linguistic relativity is indeed a vital issue, and the current volume confirms a more general trend for rehabilitating Whorf's theory complex and also offers evidence for it. It contains articles written by scholars from various fields of linguistics including phonology, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, historical linguistics, anthropological linguistics and (cross-)cultural semantics, which all contribute to a re-evaluation and partial reformulation of Whorf's thinking.
Author | : Lena Hahner |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2017-04-26 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 3668438129 |
Download Testing Linguistic Relativity. The Rediscovery of a Controversial Theory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), course: Psycholinguistics, language: English, abstract: This term paper deals with different approaches in linguistic relativity research, proving the thesis that the question whether linguistic relativity does or does not exist cannot be answered with a simple yes or no, but that the answer lies in between. The theoretical framework will be provided by an overview of the theory of linguistic relativity, whose history of origins will be introduced briefly in the beginning, followed by a review of its criticism. Subsequently, two studies will be presented and interpreted, one trying to prove and one trying to disprove the hypothesis
Author | : John J. Gumperz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1996-07-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521448901 |
Download Rethinking Linguistic Relativity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Linguistic relativity is the claim that culture, through language, affects the way in which we think, and especially our classification of the experienced world. This book reexamines ideas about linguistic relativity in the light of new evidence and changes in theoretical climate. The editors have provided a substantial introduction that summarizes changes in thinking about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in the light of developments in anthropology, linguistics and cognitive science. Introductions to each section will be of especial use to students.
Author | : Hans Thirring |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Relativity (Physics) |
ISBN | : |
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