LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY

:291 312 Copyright RELATIVITYJohn A. ideas generate as much interest and controversy as the LINGUISTIC relativityhypothesis, the proposal that the particular language we speak influences theway we think about reality. The reasons are obvious: If valid it would havewidespread implications for understanding psychological and cultural life, forthe conduct of research itself, and for public policy. Yet through most of thiscentury, interest and controversy have not given rise to sustained programs of0084-6570/97/1015-0291$ Rev. Anthropol. :291-312. Downloaded from University of Notre Dame on 09/17/14. For personal use research in any of the concerned disciplines and, as a result, the va-lidity of the proposal has remained largely in the realm of speculation. Thissituation has begun to change over the past decade, hence the occasion for LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY proposal forms part of the general question of howlanguage influences thought.

linguistic determinism (based, ultimately, on the identity of language and thought). A proposal of linguistic relativity thus claims that diverse interpreta-tions of reality embodied in languages yield demonstrable influences on thought. [Hill & Mannheim (1992, pp. 383Œ87) discuss and endorse various

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