Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis

List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Development of the linguistic relativity hypothesis in America: Boas and Sapir 2. Development of the linguistic relativity hypothesis in America: Whorf 3. Approaches in anthropological linguistics: typical ethnographic case studies 4. Approaches in anthropological linguistics: theoretical and methodological advances 5. Approaches in comparative psycholinguistics: experimental studies on the lexical coding of colour 6. Approaches in comparative psycholinguistics: experimental studies on grammatical categories 7. Overview and assessment of previous empirical research Notes References Index.