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Re: [lojban] Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
At 06:04 PM 06/11/2001 -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
Sapir never formulates the hypothesis explicitly, but it is adumbrated in
many of his works -- as well as in the works of many predecessors back at
least to von Humboldt (several pieces in the Sapir collection that I remember
as Language and Culture, but I don't have a copy of, deal with the themes of
the hypothesis). Not much has happened in the whole area since the late '50's
when linguists got all wrapped up in computation.
Actually, this isn't quite true. In the 80s, Kay and Kempton, doing some
color-word research, accidentally found some technical confirmation of
Sapir-Whorf, which rendered the controversy alive again. The Chomskyans of
course have tended to denigrate the hypothesis, while other schools of
linguistics seem agnostic about the issue.
lojbab
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