ON SAPIR-WHORF HIPOTHESIS

[Woolard, Kathryn]

The SLA Blog still has a discussion thread starting with a piece posted in 2010, when Guy Deutscher's re-visiting of linguistic relativity appeared in the popular press. That piece and the follow-up give a lot of fundamental references on the topic, including a very instructive review of Deutscher by Nick Enfield.

http://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2010/09/01/linguistic-relativity-whorf-linguistic-anthropology/

Jack Sidnell and Nick Enfield's 2012 piece on l“Language Diversity and Social Action: A Third Locus of Linguistic Relativity” Current Anthropology 53 (3):326 also offers an excellent overview of different interpretations of the Sapir-Whorft hypothesis before setting out a detailed proposal for a new interpretation based in conversation analysis.

Kit Woolard



On 5/8/13 4:26 PM, "Ronald Kephart" <ronkephart at COMCAST.NET<mailto:ronkephart at COMCAST.NET>> wrote:

I suggest John Lucy:

Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic
Relativity Hypothesis (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of
Language)

  * *Publisher:*Cambridge University Press (July 31, 1992)
  * *Language:*English
  * *ISBN-10:*0521387973
  * *ISBN-13:*978-0521387972

Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Language-Diversity-Thought-Reformulation-Foundations/dp/0521387973/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368055452&sr=1-2&keywords=john+lucy+linguistic+relativity





On 5/7/13 11:21 PM, Roger wrote:
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