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

Greg
I googled John Lucy and located his web page with all his publications
listed.  Approximately 10 articles are able to be freely downloaded from his
site as free PDF's. That is where I accessed the chapter by Whorf and
Wertsch.
Could someone tell me the protocol on the internet for posting articles to
listserves that can be freely accessed from an author's website.  I was
considering attaching the article to my recent post but wondered if I was
breaking ethical conventions [when anyone can get the article from the
web?]

Larry

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:26 AM, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:

> Greg--
>
> Good to have someone in the know here. Do you have any pdf's of one of
> John's papers, just so that
> people could get access to what the issue of tossing out all that work is
> about?
> mike
>
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Gregory Allan Thompson <
> gathomps@uchicago.edu> wrote:
>
> > My two cents (as a student of John Lucy): it was unfortunate how
> Deutscher
> > threw Whorf under the bus (so to speak) but maybe this was just his way
> of
> > pulling in NYT readers who are fans of Steven Pinker and who hear the
> name
> > Whorf and chuckle to themselves in a high and mighty manner and then move
> on
> > to the next piece (and I suspect that many of the NYT reader-ship are
> Steven
> > Pinker fans).
> >
> > As to the substance of the article, I thought he explained Haviland and
> > Levinson's work fairly well even if he left out a lot of other folks'
> work.
> > It's a good start, I'd say.
> >
> > And I certainly find John Lucy's approach of actually reading Whorf and
> > taking him at his word to be a more thoughtful approach (nowhere in
> Whorf's
> > writing do the words "prison cell of thought" appear!). But I suspect
> that
> > Deutscher will probably open up the minds of more folks (esp. the
> > Pinker-tons) by his approach.
> >
> > -greg
> >
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