Universalism versus Relativism in Language and Thought : : Proceedings of a Colloquium on the Sapir-Whorf Hypotheses / / ed. by Rik Pinxten.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 11
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Physical Description:1 online resource (310 p.) :; Num. figs.
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Table of Contents:
  • I-IV
  • Preface
  • List of contributors
  • Contents
  • PART ONE: Linguistic and Logical Approaches
  • 1. Generative Grammar and the Concept of Innate Ideas
  • 2. Presupposition, Truth and Grammatically
  • 3. Language, Logic and Thinking
  • 4. The Logic of non-European Linguistic Categories
  • PART TWO: Psychological and Anthropological Approaches
  • 5. The Current Relevance of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
  • 6. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Brain Activity
  • 7. Epistemic universals. A contribution to cognitive anthropology
  • 8. A Critical Analysis of Schaff's Views in Connection with the Relation between Language and Thought
  • 9. Language and Meaningful Intuition of Reality. A General Contribution to the Problem of Linguistic Relativity
  • PART THREE: Epistemological and Methodological Aspects of Relativism
  • 10. Is there a Linguistic Relativity Principle?
  • 11. Epistémologie et Hypothèses de Whorf
  • 12. La Vérification Psycholinguistique de la Psychiatrie et l'Anthropoanalyse
  • 13. The Reduction of Whorfian Relativity through a General-Systems Language
  • 14. Incommensurability of Theories and Untranslatability of Languages
  • 15. A l'Occasion de l'Hypothèse Sapir-Whorf: L'Incompatibilité des systèmes. Remarques générales
  • PART FOUR: Extracolloquial Papers
  • 16. Nonlinguistic Factors in Language
  • Mass Media as Language. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Electronic Media