Language Diversity and Thought Lucy Paperback Cambridge University Press

Language Diversity and ThoughtA Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis\nAuthor(s): John A. Lucy\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521387972, 978-0521387972\nSynopsis\nLanguage Diversity and Thought examines the SapirWhorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language we speak affects the way we think about reality. Adopting an historical approach, the book reviews the various lines of empirical inquiry which 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 .