Re: Sapir-Whorf hypothesis ?

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 21:20:38 MDT

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    At 06:24 PM 8/1/03 +0200, Anders wrote:

    >PNAS | July 22, 2003 | vol. 100 | no. 15 | 9085-9089
    >
    >Resolving the question of color naming universals
    >
    >Paul Kay and Terry Regier

    An interesting looking pop sci book I've just started reading is EMOTIONS
    REVEALED: Understanding Faces and Feelings, by Professor Paul Ekman, who
    has researched an adjacent field for some 40 years. He started with a
    routine belief in social construction of emotions, and was shocked by his
    cross-cultural studies into accepting that emotions are human
    universals--although, a key point, their *public expression* often varies
    strikingly due to culturally contingent `display rules'.

    Damien Broderick



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