Grammatical categories and cognition : a case study of the linguistic relativity hypothesis /

Grammatical Categories and Cognition uses original, empirical data to examine the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language we speak affects the way we think about reality. The author compares the grammar of American English with that of Y...

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Main Author: Lucy, John Arthur, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Series:Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; 13.
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