Rhetorical Implications of Linguistic Relativity

Theory and Application to Chinese and Taiwanese Interlanguages

Kristopher H Kowal (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

310 Seiten

1998
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-3343-1 (ISBN)

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Popular readings of Benjamin Lee Whorf's 'principle of linguistic relativity' focus almost exclusively on the controversial notion that language constrains or determines thought. Recent scholarship has only begun to assess the creative epistemological and pragmatic dimensions of Whorf's theory of language, and their compatibility with the ideas of his contemporaries in rhetoric, philosophy, and psychology. This book provides a new reading of Whorf which situates his writings among those of Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and Wittgenstein. Exploring the ramifications of linguistic relativity for rhetorical theory, the philosophy of language, and interlingual discourse analysis, the author re-accentuates Whorf's belief in the need to overcome linguacentrism and ethnocentrism through an 'enlightened multilingual awareness'.

The Author: Kristopher H. Kowal is an associate professor of English in the Graduate College of Western Languages and Literature at Tamkang University, Taiwan. A writer and frequent speaker at international conferences, he received his M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Southern California and his Ph.D. in Languages, Literacy, and Rhetoric from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.6.1998
Reihe/Serie	Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics ; 27
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	620 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8204-3343-8 / 0820433438
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-3343-1 / 9780820433431
Zustand	Neuware