{"product_id":"linguistic-relativity-an-essential-guide-to-past-debates-and-future-prospects-9780197799840","title":"Linguistic Relativity: An Essential Guide to Past Debates and Future Prospects","description":"The concept of linguistic relativity (or Whorfianism) has its roots in the linguistic anthropology of Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Whorf in the early twentieth century. However, questions over the relationship between natural language and human cognition go much further and deeper. Unfortunately, linguistic relativity has about as many misinterpretations as it does labels (linguistic relativity, linguistic relativism, linguistic determinism, Whorfianism, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - weak and strong). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe idea that language determines thought through an environmentally constrained feedback system is at the heart of most concepts associated with linguistic relativity. The real philosophical questions, however, only seem to present themselves at a level beyond the trivial truism that linguistic structure has an effect on thought, i.e. different languages might encode environmental information differently resulting in variation in things like processing times, measured in psycholinguistic experiments. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese questions are important for a number of related disciplines, yet the concept itself is one of the most misunderstood in modern anthropology, sociology, philosophy of language, linguistics, and cognitive science. This book contributes much needed clarity to a theoretical landscape at the center of insights into what makes us human, both linguistically and cognitively.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Ryan M. Nefdt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.18h x 5.62w x 0.24d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197799840","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44134282854537,"sku":"9780197799840","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_57fce925-7fc9-4b7d-858d-dd4a26418d30.jpg?v=1748392890","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/linguistic-relativity-an-essential-guide-to-past-debates-and-future-prospects-9780197799840","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}