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Martin Pütz & Marjolijn H. Verspoor (eds.), Explorations in linguistic relativity. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2000. Hb $88.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2002

Jürgen Bohnemeyer
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, P. O. Box 310, 6500AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands, [email protected]

Extract

The past decade has seen a remarkable resurgence of interest in the possible influences of language on “thought” – that is, relativism, the “Whorf Theory Complex” (cf. Lee 1996), or the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (LRH). On the occasion of the Whorf centenary in 1997, a number of international conferences, workshops, and symposia were dedicated to the topic. This volume presents a collection of papers from the 26th International LAUD Symposium held at Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg, Germany, April 1–5, 1998, under the title “Humboldt and Whorf Revisited: Universal and Culture-Specific Conceptualizations in Grammar and Lexis.

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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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