[Cz-linguistics] Core articles list

[Richard J Senghas]

On 28 Oct 2007, , at 10:05 PM, John Stephenson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Core_Articles/ 
> Social_Sciences#Linguistics_-_Stage_4
>
> We now have 99 'core articles' listed. This list has been created by
> Joshua Jensen and myself. Neither of us are editors. Anyone else  
> wishing
> to get involved and make changes or suggestions, speak soon or forever
> hold your peace...
>
> John.

Impressive list!  Well done.

I'd like suggest the reversal of priority/points of "Sapir-Whorf  
Hypothesis" and "Linguistic Relativity", given that the former is a  
special case of the latter.  In fact, I'm of the camp that the so- 
called Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is actually a bit of a misnomer, as  
Whorf never really proposed an hypothesis as such, but rather offered  
a theoretical explanation of the connection between habitual thought  
and language (structure).  The hypothesizing was done primarily by  
others, and often in ways that distorted the original insight.

As far as any particular languages/language families getting any  
priority of attention over any others, short of invoking statistics  
of request frequencies from some search engines (whether CZ or  
Wikipedia or whatever), any choice would strike me as rather  
arbitrary.  Might as well go with what's suggested now.

Again, excellent launch.  Thanks for the efforts.

-Richard
CZ Editor, Anthropology & Linguistics

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