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Author(s): Caleb Everett Date: 2024 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 0674976584   Pages: 288 OCR: Quality: ISBN13:   Uploader: risotor Upload Date: 10/19/2023 5:00:16 PM       To download click on link in the Links Table below                                                                        Description: Click to see full description A sweeping exploration of the relationship between the language we speak and our perception of such fundamentals of experience as time, space, color, and smells. We tend to assume that all languages categorize ideas and objects similarly, reflecting our common human experience. But this isnt the case. When we look closely, we find that many basic concepts are not universal, and that speakers of different languages literally see and think about the world differently. Caleb Everett takes readers around the globe, explaining what linguistic diversity tells us about human culture, overturning conventional wisdom along the way. For instance, though it may seem that everybody refers to time in spatial termsin English, for example, we speak of time passing us byspeakers of the Amazonian language Tupi Kawahib never do. In fact, Tupi Kawahib has no word for time at all. And while it has long been understood that languages categorize colors based on those that speakers regularly encounter, evidence suggests that the color words we have at our disposal affect how we discriminate colors themselves: a rose may not appear as rosy by any other name. Whats more, the terms available to us even determine the range of smells we can identify. European languages tend to have just a few abstract odor words, like floral or stinky, whereas Indigenous languages often have well over a dozen. Why do some cultures talk anthropocentrically about things being to ones left or right, while others use geocentric words like east and west? What is the connection between what we eat and the sounds we make? Read more Links Table     Title Link Password Size (MB) Thank to Inform Admin 3206972 Book https://rapidgator.net/file/8123b0f3a706...   0.00 risotor Tags: Differences Languages Myriad Reveal Think Tongues Title Link Password Size Reason Dead link New format   Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books: Comments New comment:

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