Grammatical Categories and Cognition

Grammatical Categories and Cognition
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 0521566207
ISBN-13 : 9780521566209
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Book Synopsis Grammatical Categories and Cognition by : John A. Lucy

Download or read book Grammatical Categories and Cognition written by John A. Lucy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Lucy uses original, empirical data to examine the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language that we speak affects the way we think about reality. The author compares the grammar of American English with that of the Yucatec Maya, an indigenous language spoken in Southeastern Mexico, focusing on differences in the number marking patterns of the two languages. He then identifies distinctive patterns of thought relating to these differences by means of a systematic assessment of memory and classification preferences among speakers of both languages.


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