Does Language Influence Culture?

MJ Hardman hardman at UFL.EDU
Thu Jul 29 00:07:10 UTC 2010


Of course it's a feedback loop, always, as a lot of us having been saying,
myself for 50 years.  The courses that treat this are called 'language and
culture' and the first lecture is that the two are NOT separable. MJ

On 7/28/10 10:34 AM, "Gaudio, Rudolf" <Rudolf.Gaudio at PURCHASE.EDU> wrote:

> * Ultimately, the extraction of language from culture or thought seems too
> mechanical. Researchers in recent years have been learning increasingly how
> the separation between supposedly genetic and non-genetic aspects of
> development breaks down upon close examination. I suspect that an analogous
> approach would provide better explanations for many of the phenomena discussed
> in this article.



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