ON GRAMMAR AND REALITY
ON GRAMMAR AND REALITY
Author(s): Laura Carmen CuțitaruSubject(s): Historical Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Descriptive linguistics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: language determinism; Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis; Neo-Whorfianism; grammatical categories; reality;
Summary/Abstract: The search for answers about the connection between language and thought, represented so well by the German philosophers in past centuries all the way down to Wilhelm von Humboldt, and revisited with moderate success by the American linguistics of the 40’s, seems to have found an unprecedented enthusiasm in today’s cognitive psychology and elsewhere. Outlandish claims about language (native or foreign) are flooding the public space. The present paper focuses on such a claim by Vietnamese-born American Classicist and author Phuc Tran.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 27
- Page Range: 84-87
- Page Count: 4
- Language: English