03263nam 2200577 450 991079850970332120230803214357.00-19-936160-60-19-936159-2(CKB)3710000000841610(EBL)4083155(SSID)ssj0001480204(PQKBManifestationID)12628978(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001480204(PQKBWorkID)11491162(PQKB)10540758(MiAaPQ)EBC4083155(Au-PeEL)EBL4083155(CaPaEBR)ebr11271540(OCoLC)957521231(EXLCZ)99371000000084161020161011h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe language hoax why the world looks the same in any language /John H. McWhorterOxford, [England] ;New York, New York :Oxford University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (203 p.)Includes index.0-19-046889-0 0-19-936158-4 Cover; The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION ; The Language Hoax; Chapter 1: Studies Have Shown; Hitting a Wall after a Long Night; Kind of Blue; Tribe without Paper or Pencils Mysteriously Weak at Portraiture; It Depends on Where You Stand; Mommy, the Park Is Covered with Squirrel! Can I Go Feed Some of It?; Language Is about All of Us; Chapter 2: Having It Both Ways?; Words versus Whorfianism; Rules of the Rain Forest?; Evidential Markers; The Irrelevance of Necessity; Not Those Things?"No Word for X": Caveat LectorWho Thinks Otherwise?; Chapter 3: An Interregnum: On Culture; Whorfianism versus Words; There Are Words and There Are Words; What's with Stand-up Comedy?; Culture Shaping Grammar: It Happens; Language and Universals: A Clarification; Moving Along; Chapter 4: Dissing the Chinese; The Normal Language: Beyond English Indeed; A Blooming Mess; Choosing Which Differences Matter; Whorfianism and Thrift; The Dog That Doesn't Bark; When a Study Shows a Negative; Chapter 5: What's the Worldview from English?; As If; Dey In, Dey Out; Try, Try Again; Undercooked?Anglerfish Testicles and the FutureWhat's Significant?; Chapter 6: Respect for Humanity; Advocacy or Reportage?; Problem One-Honesty; Are Worldviews Always Noble?; Problem Two-Respect; Through the Microscope; Problem Three-Accuracy; What Is Enlightenment?; The Wonders of Sameness; Then Isn't Language Boring?; What Is Forward?; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; IndexA provocative argument against the idea that we view the world through the lens of the language we speak.Language and cultureSapir-Whorf hypothesisLanguage and culture.Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.306.44McWhorter John H.885633MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798509703321The language hoax3733813UNINA