Linguistic Relativities

Does your language influence your thought and world view? A history of responses to this question since the 1500s.

Autorentext
John Leavitt is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Montréal.

Klappentext
Does your language influence your thought and world view? This book is a history of responses to this question since the 1500s.

Zusammenfassung
Does the language you speak influence your thought and world view? This book offers a history of responses to this question over the last half millennium: usually a simple yes (Renaissance, Romantics, Neoromantics) or no (Enlightenment, most cognitive science), but sometimes more nuanced explorations (Boasian linguistics, recent work in cognition).

Inhalt
Introduction; 1. A passage to modernity; 2. One reason, one world, many monads; 3. The world at war with reason: Britain and France in the eighteenth century; 4. Multiplicity and the Romantic explosion; 5. Essences and universals through the nineteenth century; 6. Boas and the linguistic multiverse; 7. Linguistic relativity: Sapir, Lee, and Whorf; 8. The other side of the mirror: a twentieth-century essentialism; 9. The rise of cognition and the repression of languages; 10. The return of the repressed; Conclusion.

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