Dialogue at the Margins : Whorf, Bakhtin and Linguistic Relativity
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0299127044
ISBN-13
9780299127046
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
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University of Wisconsin Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 15th, 1990
Print length
198 Pages
Weight
300 grams
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23.00 x 15.30 x 1.10 cms
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LinguisticsAnthropology
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Looks at the ""linguistic relativity principle"" of American linguist Benjamin Whorf, which is a focus of controversy among scholars. The author rereads Whorf in terms of Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin and aims to offer a new dialogic interpretation of linguistic relativity.
This book looks at the relativity principle of pioneering American linguist Benjamin Whorf which has been a focus of controversy among scholars of language for half a century. Many claim that this principle amounts to Whorf''s assertion that language determines thought and culture, while others vigorously reject such a claim. Emily Schultz re-reads Whorf in terms of Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, and argues that the Whorfian controversy is rooted in the polyphonic character of his best-known texts. By combining Whorfian and Bakhtinian insights concerning variation within and across languages. Schultz aims to offer a new dialogic interpretation of linguistic relativity that should be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, linguistics, cognitive psychology, philosophy of language and literary and art criticism.
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