NYT and SLA on Whorf

[Elizabeth Anne Falconi]

Kit are you or anyone else planning to write a letter to the NYT  
Magazine summarizing what you posted on the SLA blog? I was thinking  
it would be useful to directly engage the claims Deutscher makes about  
Whorf and to highlight the plethora of scholarship on this topic from  
our discipline that he brushes over with such broad strokes.

Best,
Elizabeth Falconi



  Quoting Kathryn Woolard <kwoolard at UCSD.EDU>:

> The recent New York Times magazine article on linguistic relativity is
> generating internet comment this week. Mindful of Bill Leap's and others'
> insightful comments on this listserv about doing our own PR work, I put
> together a little bibliographic post for the SLA website as a resource. I've
> also sent the links to the article and SLA posting to the AAA P.R. officer,
> who has asked for information on members in the news.
>
> http://www.linguisticanthropology.org/2010/09/01/linguistic-relativity-whorf
> -linguistic-anthropology/
>
> This piece is just a start; I'm sure many of you have material and
> perspectives to add, which will be welcome.
>
> All best wishes,
> Kit
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