Module 4 Optional Readings

Optional Readings

These articles provide additional perspectives on the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis.

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Benjamin Lee Whorf

• Languages and Logic Download Languages and Logic
• Science and Linguistics Download Science and Linguistics
• The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language Download The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language

John A. Lucy

• The linguistics of "color" Download The linguistics of "color"
• Language, Culture, and Mind in Comparative Perspective Download Language, Culture, and Mind in Comparative Perspective

Carol Cohn

• Nuclear Language and How We Learned to Pat the Bomb Download Nuclear Language and How We Learned to Pat the Bomb

Fuambai Ahmadu

• Rites and Wrongs: An Insider/Outsider Reflects on Power and Excision Download Rites and Wrongs: An Insider/Outsider Reflects on Power and Excision
  (from Female "Circumcision" in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and Change, edited by Bettina Shell-Duncan Ylva Hernlund)