Sökresultat för: John H. McWhorter
The Language Hoax (Inbunden)
avJohn H. McWhorter
ISBN: 9780199361588 - UTGIVEN: 2014-07Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypot[...]
Missing Spanish Creoles, The: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages (Övrig)
avJohn H. Mcwhorter
ISBN: 9780520219991 - UTGIVEN: 2000-06-12John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this provocative exploration of the origins of plantation creoles. Using a wealth of data--linguistic, sociolinguistic, historical--he proposes that the "limited access model" of creole genesis is seriously flawed. That model maintain[...]
