3. Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy: A Reformulation of Sapir's Position

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures viii
4. Tables viii
5. Paul Friedrich: An Appreciation ix
6. Acknowledgments xi
7. 1. Introduction 1
8. 2. A Background History of Linguistic Relativism 8
9. 3. Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy: A Reformulation of Sapir's Position 16
10. 4. Indeterminacy in Linguistic Fieldwork 54
11. 5. The Poetry of Language in the Politics of Dreams 65
12. 6. The Unheralded Revolution in the Sonnet: Toward a Generative Model 84
13. 7. The Poem as Parallactic Position: Seven Poems 105
14. 8. Linguistic Relativity and the Order-to-Chaos Continuum 117
15. 9. Toward an Improved Theory of Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy 153
16. Notes 161
17. Bibliography 163
18. Permission Notices 181
19. Index of Names and Titles 183
20. Subject Index 188