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Dialogue at the Margins
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- Book Synopsis
- This book looks at the relativity principle of pioneering American linguist Benjamin Whorf which has been a focus of controversy among scholars of language for half a century. Many claim that this principle amounts to Whorf's assertion that language determines thought and culture, while others vigorously reject such a claim. Emily Schultz re-reads Whorf in terms of Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, and argues that the Whorfian controversy is rooted in the polyphonic character of his best-known texts. By combining Whorfian and Bakhtinian insights concerning variation within and across languages. Schultz aims to offer a new dialogic interpretation of linguistic relativity that should be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, linguistics, cognitive psychology, philosophy of language and literary and art criticism.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780299127046
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The University of Wisconsin Press, (15 November 1990)
- Weight
- 300 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 230 x 153 x 11 mm
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