26.641, Books: Benjamin Whorf, die Sumerer und der Einfluss der Sprache auf das Denken: Fink

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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:51:13
From: Krista Zimmer [krista at isdistribution.com]
Subject: Benjamin Whorf, die Sumerer und der Einfluss der Sprache auf das Denken: Fink

 


Title: Benjamin Whorf, die Sumerer und der Einfluss der Sprache auf das
Denken 
Series Title: Philippika 70  

Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: ISD, Distributor of Scholarly Books
	   http://www.isdistribution.com
	

Book URL: http://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=44387 


Author: Sebastian Fink

Paperback: ISBN:  9783447101387 Pages: 240 Price: U.S. $ 75.00


Abstract:

Sebastian Fink asks how language influences thought and tries to determine
whether there is a method which allows us to draw conclusions about thought by
looking at a linguistic structure. In order to do this he starts by looking at
philosophers and philologists who have dealt extensively with the connection
between language and thought. The result is a catalog of theories on the
influence of language on thought which - at least in theory - can be applied
to any individual language. An attempt to apply these theories to the Sumerian
language makes up the final part of the publication in which it attempts to
show in how far this approach to language as a source for intellectual history
can prove useful. For readers without previous knowledge of Ancient Near
Eastern Studies the title provides some introductory remarks on cuneiform, on
the controversy surrounding lexical lists and on Sumerian grammar.
(Harrassowitz Verlag 2014)
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Writing Systems

Subject Language(s): Sumerian (sux)


Written In: German  (deu)

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