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Re: [xmca] FW: NYTimes.com: Does Your Language Shape How You Think?



Some of Michael Silverstein's students/associates have done some work in this area -- although I'm decades behind on their work.

The name "Benjamin Lee" vaguely comes to mind.

On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, mike cole wrote:

Peter-- This article seemed like pop psycholinguistics to me. The "trauma"
of whorf?

There is a lot of work, call it "neo-whorfian" on relations between language
and thought. The recent writings of John Lucy come to mind, but many others
as well.

mike

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 6:16 AM, smago <smago@uga.edu> wrote:


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&emc=eta1&adxnnlx=1283000763-rynkTFk68LNetdkYjfAi8Q
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