ON SAPIR-WHORF HIPOTHESIS

[Isabel Heck]

Hi Roger,

I would recommend Chapter 7 of John Leavitt's recent book Linguistic Relativities. Language diversity and modern thought.
http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521767828&ss=fro

Best regards,

Isabel

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On 2013-05-08, at 4:35 AM, Laura Ahearn wrote:

> Chapter Four of my book, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444340563) is devoted to reviewing the so-called Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and the overall relationship that language has to culture and thought.
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> On May 8, 2013, at 2:06 AM, "King, Dr Alexander D." <a.king at ABDN.AC.UK> wrote:
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>> Dear Roger,
>> 
>> The best discussion of Whorf I have ever read is Penny Lee's book The Whorf Theory Complex. I think the pub date is mid-1990s from Benjamin Press.
>> 
>> The collection of Whorf's essays edited by Carol is the best single place to read his stuff, as long as you ignore the preface by that idiot Chase.
>> 
>> Alex
>> 
>> Отправлено с iPhone
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>> May 8, 2013, в 3:31 PM, "Roger" <rogervsc at YAHOO.COM.BR> написал(а):
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>>> Dear friends:
>>> 
>>> In the present stage of my master on Linguistic, I am interested on
>>> Sapir-Whorf hipothesis. Do somebody know the best english/spanish books and
>>> papers about that? Where can I access the original Sapir-Whorf's works, at
>>> least the translated ones?
>>> 
>>> B
>>> est regards.
>>> 
>>> Roger Costa
>>> PUC Minas
>>> Brazil
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