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Department of Language and Literature Department of Language and Literature

ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Manfred Kienpointner ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Manfred Kienpointner

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Language and Thinking: Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

PS 1

5

weekly

every 3rd semester

German

deepening of knowledge on the subject of language and thinking; student work on specific questions

Students will work on recent (psycho-)linguistic literature on various aspects of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and/or carry out empirical research on the relation of language and thought in the context of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. The results of these investigations/studies will be presented in class (oral presentation).

written paper, oral presentation

Boroditzky, L. (2011): How Language Shapes Thought. The Languages We Speak Affect Our Perception of the World. In: Scientific American. February 2011. 63-65. Gipper, Helmut (1972): Gibt es ein sprachliches Relativitätsprinzip? Überlegungen zur Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese. Stuttgart: Fischer. Hajnal, Ivo (2010): Sprache - Denken - Wirklichkeit. In: T. Märk/K. Töchterle (Hg.): Entwurf und Wirklichkeit. Innsbruck: Innsbruck Univ. Press. Kienpointner, M. (1998): Sprachsystem, Sprachnorm, Sprachgebrauch und Weltbild. Bemerkungen zum linguistischen Relativitätsprinzip B.L. Whorfs. In: P. Holzer / C. Feyrer (Hg.): Text, Kultur und Sprache. Bern: Lang. 87-107. Levinson, Stephen (2003): Space in Language and Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. Whorf, Benjamin L. (1956): Language, Thought, and Reality. Cambridge/Mass. MIT-Press 1956 (dt. 1975: Sprache, Denken, Wirklichkeit. Reinbek: Rowohlt).

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