Contents

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. List of contributors VII
4. Contents XI
5. PART ONE: Linguistic and Logical Approaches
6. 1. Generative Grammar and the Concept of Innate Ideas 3
7. 2. Presupposition, Truth and Grammatically 57
8. 3. Language, Logic and Thinking 69
9. 4. The Logic of non-European Linguistic Categories 85
10. PART TWO: Psychological and Anthropological Approaches
11. 5. The Current Relevance of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis 99
12. 6. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Brain Activity 109
13. 7. Epistemic universals. A contribution to cognitive anthropology 117
14. 8. A Critical Analysis of Schaff's Views in Connection with the Relation between Language and Thought 177
15. 9. Language and Meaningful Intuition of Reality. A General Contribution to the Problem of Linguistic Relativity 193
16. PART THREE: Epistemological and Methodological Aspects of Relativism
17. 10. Is there a Linguistic Relativity Principle? 217
18. 11. Epistémologie et Hypothèses de Whorf 229
19. 12. La Vérification Psycholinguistique de la Psychiatrie et l'Anthropoanalyse 241
20. 13. The Reduction of Whorfian Relativity through a General-Systems Language 257
21. 14. Incommensurability of Theories and Untranslatability of Languages 269
22. 15. A l'Occasion de l'Hypothèse Sapir-Whorf: L'Incompatibilité des systèmes. Remarques générales 277
23. PART FOUR: Extracolloquial Papers
24. 16. Nonlinguistic Factors in Language 295
25. Mass Media as Language. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Electronic Media 303