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Language in Mind Advances in the Study of Language and Cognition
by Gentner, Dedre, Goldin-Meadow, Susan
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- Comments: 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 marke
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- ISBN-13: 9780262571630
- ISBN: 0262571633
- Publication Date: 2003
- Publisher: Mit Pr
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This volume offers contemporary investigations of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that language influences how we perceive and understand the world.Gentner, Dedre is the author of 'Language in Mind Advances in the Study of Language and Cognition', published 2003 under ISBN 9780262571630 and ISBN 0262571633.
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