Loci of diversity and convergence in thought and language

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Towards a ‘full pedigree’ of the ‘Sapir-Whorf hypothesis’ 1
6. How relativistic are Humboldt’s “Weltansichten”? 25
7. When is ‘linguistic relativity’ Whorf’s linguistic relativity? 45
8. Linguistic relativity and translation 69
9. Humboldt, Whorf and the roots of ecolinguistics 89
10. Loci of diversity and convergence in thought and language 101
11. On linguocentrism 125
12. From the Jurassic dark 159
13. Neuro-cognitive structure in the interplay of language and thought 173
14. Language and thought 197
15. Ontological classifiers as polycentric categories, as seen in Shona class 3 nouns 225
16. Linguistic relativity and the plasticity of categorization 249
17. Linguistic relativity as a function of ideological deixis 295
18. Why we subject incorporate (in English) 319
19. Metalinguistic awareness in linguistic relativity 345
20. Subject Index 365