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Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought

Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought

Gentner, Dedre
Goldin-Meadow, Susan

Paperback

Series: Bradford Books

LinguisticsGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0262571633
ISBN13: 9780262571630
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Published: Mar 14 2003
Pages: 538
Weight: 1.57
Height: 1.07 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.14
Language: English
The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and intense controversy. According to the strong version of this hypothesis, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis after the American linguists who propounded it, languages vary in their semantic partitioning of the world, and the structure of one's language influences how one understands the world. Thus speakers of different languages perceive the world differently.

Although the last two decades have been marked by extreme skepticism concerning the possible effects of language on thought, recent theoretical and methodological advances in cognitive science have given the question new life. Research in linguistics and linguistic anthropology has revealed striking differences in cross-linguistic semantic patterns, and cognitive psychology has developed subtle techniques for studying how people represent and remember experience. It is now possible to test predictions about how a given language influences the thinking of its speakers.

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