The Influence of Language on Culture and Thought

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Cooper, Robert L. / Spolsky, Bernard -- The wax and wane of Whorfian views / Schlesinger, I. M. -- Linguistic relativity revisited / Macnamara, John -- Cognitive pluralism: A Whorfian analysis / John-Steiner, Vera -- The mother tongue / Haugen, Einar -- Linguacentrism and language history / Dorian, Nancy C. -- Cognitive and social correlates of bilinguality / Tucker, G. Richard -- Integrating theory in the study of minority languages / Giles, Howard / Coupland, Nikolas / Williams, Angie / Leets, Laura -- Hebrew language revitalization within a general theory of second language learning / Spolsky, Bernard -- Language choice and the Halakhic speech act / Glinert, Lewis H. -- Individual and social in language change: Diachronic changes in politeness agreement in forms of address / Ferguson, Charles A. -- Women in conversation: Covert models in American language ideology / Heath, Shirley Brice -- Dreams of scripts: Writing systems as gifts of God / Cooper, Robert L. -- The future of Chinese characters / Coulmas, Florian -- Joshua A. Fishman: Bibliographical inventory / Fishman, Gella Schweid -- Index