[Cz-linguistics] Core articles list

[Joshua Jensen]

(1) I agree with Richard on points assignment (Sapir-Whorf vs Relativity). I
think we should have an article called Sapir-Whorf, though, even if it's a
misnomer. It's something that even non-linguists have heard about (not many,
granted), and I think the article can explain why it is or isn't a good
name.

(2) I'm not sure that we've done much shuffling of points since the list
expanded. I've added a section in the discussion (
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ_Talk:Core_Articles/Social_Sciences) for
recommending additions / deletions / point-assignment changes.

Everyone, please take a few minutes to look it over.

If you don't like messing the Wiki code, email me your suggestions, and I'll
add them for you.

Josh

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Joshua M. Jensen <vivere.christus at gmail.com> http://ling.uta.edu/~josh
University of Texas at Arlington
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On 10/29/07, Richard J Senghas <Richard.Senghas at sonoma.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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