Universalism versus Relativism in Language and Thought: Proceedings of a Colloquium on the Sapir-Whorf Hypotheses
In: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]
In: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] Ser v.11
Intro -- PREFACE BY THE EDITOR -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PART I: LINGUISTIC AND LOGICAL APPROACHES -- 1. Generative grammar and the concept of innate ideas -- 2. Presupposition, truth and grammatically -- 3. Language, logic and thinking -- 4. The logic of non-European linguistic categories -- PART II: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES -- 5. The current relevance of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis -- 6. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and brain activity -- 7. Epistemic universals. A contribution to cognitive anthropology -- 8. A critical analysis of Schaff's views in connection with the relation between language and thought -- 9. Language and meaningful intuition of reality. A general contribution to the problem of linguistic relativity -- PART III: EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF RELATIVISM -- 10. Is there a linguistic relativity principle? -- 11. Epistémologie et hypothèses de Whorf -- 12. La verification psycholinguistique de la psychiatrie et l'anthropoanalyse -- 13. The reduction of Whorfian relativity through a general systems language -- 14. Incommensurability of theory and untranslatability of languages -- 15. A l'occasion de l'hypothèse Sapir-Whorf: L'incompatibilité des systèmes. Remarques générales -- PART IV: EXTRACOLLOQUIAL PAPERS -- 16. Nonlinguistic factors in language -- 17. Mass media as language. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and electronic media.