Pütz Martin, Verspoor Marjolijn (Eds.). Explorations in Linguistic Relativity

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000. — 386 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 199).About a century after the year Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) was born, his theory complex is still the object of keen interest to linguists. Recently, scholars have argued that it was not his theory complex itself, but an over-simplified, reduced section taken out of context that has become known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that has met with so much resistance among linguists over the last few decades. Not only did Whorf present his views much more subtly than most people would believe, but he also dealt with a great number of other issues in his work. Taking Whorf’s own notion of linguistic relativity as a starting point, this volume explores the relation between language, mind and experience through its historical development, Whorf’s own writing, its misinterpretations, various theoretical and methodological issues and a closer look at a few specific issues in his work.Towards a ‘full pedigree’ of the ‘Sapir-Whorf hypothesis’: From Locke to Lucy - E.F.K. Koerner
How relativistic are Humboldt’s “Weltansichten”? - Jürgen Trabant
When is ‘linguistic relativity’ Whorf’s linguistic relativity? - Penny Lee
Linguistic relativity and translation - Juliane House
Humboldt, Whorf and the roots of ecolinguistics - Peter Mühlhäusler
Loci of diversity and convergence in thought and language - Wallace Chafe
On linguocentrism - N.J. Enfield
From the Jurassic dark: Linguistic relativity as evolutionary necessity - Paul R. Hays
Neuro-cognitive structure in the interplay of language and thought - Sydney M. Lamb
Language and thought: Collective tools for individual use - David B. Kronenfeld
Ontological classifiers as polycentric categories, as seen in Shona class 3 nouns - Gary B. Palmer and Claudia Woodman
Linguistic relativity and the plasticity of categorization: Universalism in a New Key - Robert E. MacLaury
Linguistic relativity as a function of ideological deixis - Bruce Hawkins
Why we subject incorporate (in English): a post-Whorfian view - Linda L. Thornburg and Klaus-Uwe Panther
Metalinguistic awareness in linguistic relativity: Cultural and subcultural practices across Chinese dialect communities - Minglang Zhou