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introduction by John B. Carroll ; foreword by Stephen C. Levinson.
No full textThe pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (1897–1941) grasped the relationship between human language and human thinking: how language can shape our innermost thoughts. His basic thesis is that our perception of the world and our ways of thinking about it are deeply influenced by the structure of the languages we speak. The writings collected in this volume include important papers on the Maya, Hopi, and Shawnee languages, as well as more general reflections on language and meaning. Whorf’s ideas about the relation of language and thought have always appealed to a wide audience, but their reception in expert circles has alternated between dismissal and applause. Recently the language sciences have headed in directions that give Whorf’s thinking a renewed relevance. Hence this new edition of Whorf’s classic work is especially timely. The second edition includes all the writings from the first edition as well as John Carroll’s original introduction, a new foreword by Stephen Levinson of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics that puts Whorf’s work in historical and contemporary context, and new indexes. In addition, this edition offers Whorf’s “Yale Report,” an important work from Whorf’s mature oeuvre
Whorf, Benjamin Lee, Language, Thought and Reality. Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf, seconde édition établie par John Carroll, Stephen C. Levinson & Penny Lee, 2012
No full textFortis Jean-Michel. Whorf, Benjamin Lee, Language, Thought and Reality. Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf, seconde édition établie par John Carroll, Stephen C. Levinson & Penny Lee, 2012. In: Histoire Épistémologie Langage, tome 35, fascicule 2, 2013. pp. 143-146
Nick J. Enfield & Stephen C. Levinson, eds, Roots of Human Sociality
No full textCet ouvrage collectif s’intéresse aux fondements de la socialité humaine dans une perspective interdisciplinaire. Dirigé par Stephen Levinson et Nick Enfield, chercheurs au Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Pays-Bas) où ils s’occupent d’un projet intitulé « Language & Cognition », ce livre rassemble les contributions d’une vingtaine de spécialistes de diverses disciplines, la plupart de réputation internationale. Fruit d’un colloque organisé par la Wenner-Gren Foundation en 2004, l’..
Nick J. Enfield & Stephen C. Levinson, eds, Roots of Human Sociality
No full textCet ouvrage collectif s’intéresse aux fondements de la socialité humaine dans une perspective interdisciplinaire. Dirigé par Stephen Levinson et Nick Enfield, chercheurs au Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Pays-Bas) où ils s’occupent d’un projet intitulé « Language & Cognition », ce livre rassemble les contributions d’une vingtaine de spécialistes de diverses disciplines, la plupart de réputation internationale. Fruit d’un colloque organisé par la Wenner-Gren Foundation en 2004, l’..
Three levels of meaning: Essays in honor of Sir John Lyons [Reprint]
No full textReprint from Stephen C. Levinson, ‘Three Levels of Meaning’, in Frank Palmer (ed.), Grammar and Meaning: Essays in Honor of Sir John Lyons (Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 90–11
Nijmegen Typological Survey
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Harald Hammarström, Ger Reesink, Michael Dunn, Ruth Singer, Hedvig Skirgård, Suzanne van der Meer, Stephen C. Levinson. 2017. Nijmegen Typological Surve
Reciprocals and Semantic Typology
No full textReciprocals are an increasingly hot topic in linguistic research. This reflects the intersection of several factors: the semantic and syntactic complexity of reciprocal constructions, their centrality to some key points of linguistic theorizing (such as Binding Conditions on anaphors within Government and Binding Theory), and the centrality of reciprocity to theories of social structure, human evolution and social cognition. No existing work, however, tackles the question of exactly what reciprocal constructions mean cross-linguistically. Is there a single, Platonic 'reciprocal' meaning found in all languages, or is there a cluster of related concepts which are nonetheless impossible to characterize in any single way? That is the central goal of this volume, and it develops and explains new techniques for tackling this question. At the same time, it confronts a more general problem facing semantic typology: how to investigate a category cross-linguistically without pre-loading the definition of the phenomenon on the basis of what is found in more familiar languages
Noord-Zuid-Links-Rechts [Interview for Dutch television programme Noorderlicht]
No full textAn interview with Stephen C. Levinson for the Dutch television programme Noorderlicht, broadcast by VPRO on March 14, 1993. The topic of the interview is the study of spatial language and cognition, in particular the "absolute" spatial descriptions in the Australian aboriginal language Guugu Yimithirr
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