Humboldt, worldview and language /
With the loss of many of the world's languages, it is important to question what will be lost to humanity with their demise. It is frequently argued that a language engenders a 'worldview', but what do we mean by this term? Attributed to German politician and philologist Wilhelm von H...
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Edinburgh University Press,
2009
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Language and World; 1. The Word is a World (La parole est un monde); 2. What Do We Have in Mind When We Talk about Language?; 3. What Do We See in the Term Worldview?; 4. Boas; 5. Sapir; 6. Whorf; Part II: Humboldt, Man and Language; 7. Worldview (Weltanschauung or Weltansicht); 8. Sprache; 9. The Work of the Mind; 10. Form; 11. Creativity, Culture and Character; 12. Catching the Character; 13. A Seeing and Feeling Worldview; 14. Four Dangers in the Comparative Approach; 15. Reformulating the Worldview Hypothesis; 16. A Final Word.
