What is it about?
How are language and thinking related - and what kind of an effect a particular language has on the patterns of thought? The questions are approached from the point of view of embodiment - and a similarity between the arguments of Benjamin Lee Whorf, Mihail Bakhtin and Maurice Merleau-Ponty is argued for.
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Why is it important?
The paper seeks to transcend a polarized view of 'universality' and 'language-specificity' and draws attention to both commonalities and particularities in language and thought.
Perspectives
This paper is personally important as it invited me (and hopefully researchers in more general) to go back to original papers (such as those of Benjamin Lee Whorf) instead of those, perhaps more popular, but often misleading interpretations - as has been overwhelmingly the case of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
Professor Hannele Dufva
University of Jyvaskyla
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This page is a summary of: Language, Thinking and Embodiment: Bakhtin, Whorf and Merleau-Ponty, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1057/9780230005679_7.
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