Dialogue at the Margins: Whorf, Bakhtin, and Linguistic Relativity

by Emily A. Schultz

The "linguistic relativity principle" of pioneering American linguist Benjamin Whorf has been a focus of controversy among scholars of language for half a century. Many claim that this principle amounts to Whorf's assertion that language determines thought and culture, while others vigorously reject such a claim. Emily Schultz rereads Whorf in terms of Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, and argues that the Whorfian controversy is rooted in the polyphonic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299127044
• ISBN13: 9780299127046
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"