Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking
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Classic case studies surveying the use, role and function of language and speech in social life.
Studies in de Sociale en Culturele Grondslagen van Taal Reeks
Deze reeks duikt diep in de complexe relatie tussen taal, maatschappij en cultuur. Het onderzoekt hoe sociale contexten en culturele normen linguïstische betekenissen en functies vormgeven. Elk deel levert aanzienlijke etnografische en theoretische bijdragen aan het begrip van taalvariatie binnen diverse culturen. De collectie is essentiële lectuur voor academici op het gebied van linguïstische antropologie, sociolinguïstiek en aanverwante disciplines.
Language Diversity and Thought
A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
Language Diversity and Thought examines the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language that we speak affects the way we think about reality. Adopting a historical approach, the book reviews the various lines of empirical inquiry that arose in America in response to the ideas of anthropologists Edward Sapir and Benjamin L. Whorf. John Lucy asks why there has been so little fruitful empirical research on this problem and what lessons can be learned from past work. He then proposes a new, more adequate approach to future empirical research. A companion volume, Grammatical Categories and Cognition, illustrates the proposed approach with an original case study. The study compares the grammar of American English with that of Yucatec Maya, an indigenous language spoken in southeastern Mexico, and then identifies distinctive patterns of thinking related to the differences between the two languages.