Language amd culture

Authors

  • Marianne Kilani-Schoch Université de Lausanne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17184/eac.anthropen.017

Keywords:

Linguistic relativism, Experimental psycholinguistics, Deixis, Ethnography of communication, Thinking to speak

Abstract

The entry presents different conceptions and approaches to the relation problem between language and culture since the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and shows how, after a phase of retreat in the 1960s, the issue has re-emerged separately in psycholinguistics, linguistics, and anthropology in works that uncover certain cognitive, interactional, and social implications, respectively, of linguistic diversity.

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Published

2016-09-01