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Grammatical Categories and Cognition: A Case Study of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis

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Grammatical Categories and Cognition: A Case Study of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis - Lucy, John A.
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Grammatical Categories and Cognition uses original, empirical data to examine the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language we speak affects the way we think about reality. The author compares the grammar of American English with that of Yucatec Maya, an indigenous language spoken in south-eastern Mexico, focusing on differences in the number marking patterns of the two languages. He then identifies distinctive patterns of thought relating to these differences by ...

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Grammatical Categories and Cognition: A Case Study of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis 1996, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521566209

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Grammatical Categories and Cognition: A Case Study of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis 1992, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521384193

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