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Cultural contact and linguistic relativity among the Indians of northwestern California /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Neill, Sean, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Indians of North America > California, Northern > Languages.
Anthropological linguistics > California, Northern.
Table of Contents:
  • Language and culture in northwestern California
  • Linguistic relativity and the puzzle of northwestern California
  • Geographical spatial orientation
  • Linguistic systems of spatial reference
  • Geography and cosmology
  • The linguistic classifications of time
  • The linguistic construction of time in narrative
  • Classifying experience through language
  • Cultural meaning in everyday vocabulary
  • Language contact, multilingualism, and divergent drift
  • Contact, extremism, and linguistic relativity in northwestern California.