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100	1		_aLeavitt, John Harold _d(1952-....) _eAuteur _4070 _9389350
245	1	0	_aLinguistic relativities _h[Texte imprimé] : _blanguage diversity and modern thought / _cJohn Leavitt
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York ; _aMelbourne [etc.] : _bCambridge University Press, _c2011
300			_a1 vol. (X-245 p.) ; _c24 cm
520			_a"There are more than six thousand human languages, each one unique. For the last five hundred years, people have argued about how important language differences are. This book traces that history and shows how language differences have generally been treated either as of no importance or as all-important, depending on broader approaches taken to human life and knowledge. It was only in the twentieth century, in the work of Franz Boas and his students, that an attempt was made to engage seriously with the reality of language specificities. Since the 1950s, this work has been largely presented as yet another claim that language differences are all-important by cognitive scientists and philosophers who believe that such differences are of no importance. This book seeks to correct this misrepresentation and point to the new directions taken by the Boasians, directions now being recovered in the most recent work in psychology and linguistics"-- _cProvided by publisher
504			_aBibliogr. p. 222-240
653			_aLanguage and languages / Origin
653			_aLinguistic change
653			_aAnthropological linguistics
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