| Description |
xii, 178 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
| Series |
New directions in anthropological writing |
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New directions in anthropological writing.
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| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Bakhtin and Whorf -- 2. The politics of style : Whorfian verbal rhetoric -- 3. Whorfian nonverbal rhetoric : the drawings -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
This book looks at the relativity principle of pioneering American linguist Benjamin Whorf which has been a focus of controversy among scholars of language for half a century. Many claim that this principle amounts to Whorf's assertion that language determines thought and culture, while others vigorously reject such a claim. Emily Schultz re-reads Whorf in terms of Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, and argues that the Whorfian controversy is rooted in the polyphonic character of his best-known texts. By combining Whorfian and Bakhtinian insights concerning variation within and across languages. Schultz aims to offer a new dialogic interpretation of linguistic relativity that should be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, linguistics, cognitive psychology, philosophy of language and literary and art criticism |
| Analysis |
Language |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p169-174. - Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-174) and index |
| Subject |
Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975.
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Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941.
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Language and languages.
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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
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| LC no. |
90050097 |
| ISBN |
0299127001 |
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0299127044 (paperback) |
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9780299127046 |
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