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Subject: Linguistic Relativities: Leavitt
 

	
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Title: Linguistic Relativities 
Subtitle: Language Diversity and Modern Thought 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	
Author: John Leavitt

Hardback: ISBN:  9780521767828 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 60.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9780521767828 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 99.00


Abstract:

There are more than six thousand human languages, each one unique. For the 
last five hundred years, people have argued about how important language 
differences are. This book traces that history and shows how language 
differences have generally been treated either as of no importance or as all-
important, depending on broader approaches taken to human life and knowledge. 
It was only in the twentieth century, in the work of Franz Boas and his students, 
that an attempt was made to engage seriously with the reality of language 
specificities. Since the 1950s, this work has been largely presented as yet 
another claim that language differences are all-important by cognitive scientists 
and philosophers who believe that such differences are of no importance. This 
book seeks to correct this misrepresentation and point to the new directions 
taken by the Boasians, directions now being recovered in the most recent work 
in psychology and linguistics. 



Introduction; 

1. A passage to modernity; 
2. One reason, one world, many monads; 
3. The world at war with reason: Britain and France in the eighteenth century; 
4. Multiplicity and the Romantic explosion; 
5. Essences and universals through the nineteenth century; 
6. Boas and the linguistic multiverse; 
7. Linguistic relativity: Sapir, Lee, and Whorf; 
8. The other side of the mirror: a twentieth-century essentialism; 
9. The rise of cognition and the repression of languages; 
10. The return of the repressed; 

Conclusion. 


Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     History of Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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