Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking
- 536pages
- 19 heures de lecture
Classic case studies surveying the use, role and function of language and speech in social life.
Études dans les Fondements Sociaux et Culturels du Langage Séries
Cette série explore la relation complexe entre la langue, la société et la culture. Elle examine comment les contextes sociaux et les normes culturelles façonnent les significations et les fonctions linguistiques. Chaque volume apporte des contributions ethnographiques et théoriques substantielles à la compréhension de la variation linguistique à travers diverses cultures. La collection est une lecture essentielle pour les chercheurs en anthropologie linguistique, en sociolinguistique et dans des domaines connexes.
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.