A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think Everett Caleb
A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think Everett Caleb A sweeping exploration of the relationship between the language we speak and our perception of such fundamentals of…
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A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think Everett Caleb
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. 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. But this isn't the case.
In fact, Tupi Kawahib has no word for "time" at For instance, though it may seem that everybody refers to time in spatial terms--in English, for example, we speak of time "passing us by"--speakers of the Amazonian language Tupi Kawahib never do.
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