A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think

Caleb Everett

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Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, space, color, odor, and taste is substantially influenced by language, so that basic interactions with the world vary greatly across peoples.

Request Code
ZLIBIO4053325
Published
2023
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pages
288
Language
English
Format
PDF
ISBN-13
9780674295230