John A Lucy
Biographic Data
| ID | 82124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John A Lucy |
| GIVEN NAMES | John A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lucy |
| SIGNATURE | LUCY J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 208 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Influence of Language Structure and Function on Thought
Given the centrality of language in human life, scholars and others have long been interested in whether and how languages might influence thought. This paper describes a line of anthropological research on this issue that moves from a structural comparison of number marking in American English and Yucatec Maya to an assessment of associated cognitive effects on classification and memory, to an exploration of the functional factors involved in th…
Recent Advances in the Study of Linguistic Relativity in Historical Context
This article outlines the history of empirical research on linguistic relativity, surveys current research, and appraises critically the trends of the past decade, highlighting conceptual and methodological issues. Initial research arose in anthropology from an interest in the significance of language differences for thought, but was soon followed by work in psychology targeting the assessment of language and thought connections. During a subsequ…
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Reflexive Language
Language Structure, Lexical Meaning, and Cognition
This chapter is divided into three sections. The first articulates a view of lexemes and lexical meaning that provides a salient place for grammatical and semantic structure. The second section links this view of lexical meaning to traditional theories about the relation of language and thought in the work of Whorf and Vygotsky. The discussion makes clear that both theorists saw language structures as the principal locus of linguistic influences …
Reflexivity
Space in Language and Thought
Linguistic Relativity
The linguistic relativity hypothesis, the proposal that the particular language we speak influences the way we think about reality, forms one part of the broader question of how language influences thought. Despite long-standing historical interest in the hypothesis, there is relatively little empirical research directly addressing it. Existing empirical approaches are classified into three types. 1. Structure-centered approaches begin with langu…
Grammatical Categories and Cognition
Background of the comparative research in Yucatan, Mexico 2. Comparison of grammatical categories: nominal number in English and Yucatec 3. Cognitive assessment 4. Conclusions Appendices Notes References Index
Reflexive Language
Reflexive Language
The role of semantic value in lexical comparison
L'article illustre l'importance des elements morphosyntaxiques distributionnels en evaluant la semantique des predicats spatiaux en yucatec maya, une langue parlee dans le sud-est du Mexique
Reflexive Language
This volume examines the nature and significance of the reflexive aspect of natural language, its capacity to represent its own structure and use through reported speech and explicit statements about language-use (metapragmatics). It adopts a truly interdisciplinary approach. Part I contains papers outlining the volume's theoretical scope. Parts II and III contain anthropological case studies which show the formal devices behind reflexive usage i…
Reflexive language and the human disciplines
What prevents a work from being completed becomes the work itself. Marcus Aurelius Human activity is saturated by speech and much of what is distinctive about the human species depends on the use of language. Yet it is not easy to specify exactly what it is about language that is so special. One aspect of language that has drawn extensive attention in this regard is its reflexive capacity: in its full form this property may be unique to human lan…
Grammatical Categories and Cognition
Grammatical Categories and Cognition uses original, empirical data to examine the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language we speak affects the way we think about reality. The author compares the grammar of American English with that of Yucatec Maya, an indigenous language spoken in south-eastern Mexico, focusing on differences in the number marking patterns of the two languages. He th…
Language Diversity and Thought
Language Diversity and Thought examines the Sapir–Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language we speak affects the way we think about reality. Adopting an historical approach, the book reviews the various lines of empirical inquiry which arose in America in response to the ideas of anthropologists Edward Sapir and Benjamin L. Whorf. John Lucy asks why there has been so little fruitful empirical…
The Real-Ideal Self-Concept Discrepancy and its Relation to Guilt
Previous research on the discrepancy between real and ideal self-concepts has shown this gap to be related to neuroticism and various forms of emotional discomfort. Although authors have speculated about the relation between guilt and the real-ideal gap, no previous study has directly explored this relationship. The current study specifically examined the relationship of conscience-guilt to self-reported discrepancies between real and ideal self-…
The Effect of Incidental Conversation on Memory for Focal Colors
Whorf and His Critics
The current state of research on language and thought using color as a stimulus is reviewed. Five related experiments that integrate and expand the findings of this previous color research are reported. The relationship between memory and (1) color stimuli discriminability, (2) focality, (3) two-person communication accuracy, (4) group communication accuracy, and (5) referential confusability is assessed. What we discover is that the color array …
Linguistic Relativity
The linguistic relativity hypothesis, the proposal that the particular language we speak influences the way we think about reality, forms one part of the broader question of how language influences thought. Despite long-standing historical interest in the hypothesis, there is relatively little empirical research directly addressing it. Existing empirical approaches are classified into three types. 1. Structure-centered approaches begin with langu…
Language Diversity and Thought
Language Diversity and Thought examines the Sapir–Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language we speak affects the way we think about reality. Adopting an historical approach, the book reviews the various lines of empirical inquiry which arose in America in response to the ideas of anthropologists Edward Sapir and Benjamin L. Whorf. John Lucy asks why there has been so little fruitful empirical…
Whorf and His Critics
The current state of research on language and thought using color as a stimulus is reviewed. Five related experiments that integrate and expand the findings of this previous color research are reported. The relationship between memory and (1) color stimuli discriminability, (2) focality, (3) two-person communication accuracy, (4) group communication accuracy, and (5) referential confusability is assessed. What we discover is that the color array …
The Effect of Incidental Conversation on Memory for Focal Colors
Recent Advances in the Study of Linguistic Relativity in Historical Context
This article outlines the history of empirical research on linguistic relativity, surveys current research, and appraises critically the trends of the past decade, highlighting conceptual and methodological issues. Initial research arose in anthropology from an interest in the significance of language differences for thought, but was soon followed by work in psychology targeting the assessment of language and thought connections. During a subsequ…
Space in Language and Thought
Reflexive Language
The role of semantic value in lexical comparison
L'article illustre l'importance des elements morphosyntaxiques distributionnels en evaluant la semantique des predicats spatiaux en yucatec maya, une langue parlee dans le sud-est du Mexique
Reflexive Language
Reflexivity
Whorf and His Critics
The current state of research on language and thought using color as a stimulus is reviewed. Five related experiments that integrate and expand the findings of this previous color research are reported. The relationship between memory and (1) color stimuli discriminability, (2) focality, (3) two-person communication accuracy, (4) group communication accuracy, and (5) referential confusability is assessed. What we discover is that the color array …
The Real-Ideal Self-Concept Discrepancy and its Relation to Guilt
Previous research on the discrepancy between real and ideal self-concepts has shown this gap to be related to neuroticism and various forms of emotional discomfort. Although authors have speculated about the relation between guilt and the real-ideal gap, no previous study has directly explored this relationship. The current study specifically examined the relationship of conscience-guilt to self-reported discrepancies between real and ideal self-…
The Effect of Incidental Conversation on Memory for Focal Colors
Grammatical Categories and Cognition
Grammatical Categories and Cognition uses original, empirical data to examine the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language we speak affects the way we think about reality. The author compares the grammar of American English with that of Yucatec Maya, an indigenous language spoken in south-eastern Mexico, focusing on differences in the number marking patterns of the two languages. He th…
Language Diversity and Thought
Language Diversity and Thought examines the Sapir–Whorf linguistic relativity hypothesis: the proposal that the grammar of the particular language we speak affects the way we think about reality. Adopting an historical approach, the book reviews the various lines of empirical inquiry which arose in America in response to the ideas of anthropologists Edward Sapir and Benjamin L. Whorf. John Lucy asks why there has been so little fruitful empirical…
Reflexive Language
This volume examines the nature and significance of the reflexive aspect of natural language, its capacity to represent its own structure and use through reported speech and explicit statements about language-use (metapragmatics). It adopts a truly interdisciplinary approach. Part I contains papers outlining the volume's theoretical scope. Parts II and III contain anthropological case studies which show the formal devices behind reflexive usage i…
Reflexive language and the human disciplines
What prevents a work from being completed becomes the work itself. Marcus Aurelius Human activity is saturated by speech and much of what is distinctive about the human species depends on the use of language. Yet it is not easy to specify exactly what it is about language that is so special. One aspect of language that has drawn extensive attention in this regard is its reflexive capacity: in its full form this property may be unique to human lan…
The role of semantic value in lexical comparison
L'article illustre l'importance des elements morphosyntaxiques distributionnels en evaluant la semantique des predicats spatiaux en yucatec maya, une langue parlee dans le sud-est du Mexique
Grammatical Categories and Cognition
Background of the comparative research in Yucatan, Mexico 2. Comparison of grammatical categories: nominal number in English and Yucatec 3. Cognitive assessment 4. Conclusions Appendices Notes References Index
Reflexive Language
Reflexive Language
Linguistic Relativity
The linguistic relativity hypothesis, the proposal that the particular language we speak influences the way we think about reality, forms one part of the broader question of how language influences thought. Despite long-standing historical interest in the hypothesis, there is relatively little empirical research directly addressing it. Existing empirical approaches are classified into three types. 1. Structure-centered approaches begin with langu…
Space in Language and Thought
Reflexivity
Reflexive Language
Language Structure, Lexical Meaning, and Cognition
This chapter is divided into three sections. The first articulates a view of lexemes and lexical meaning that provides a salient place for grammatical and semantic structure. The second section links this view of lexical meaning to traditional theories about the relation of language and thought in the work of Whorf and Vygotsky. The discussion makes clear that both theorists saw language structures as the principal locus of linguistic influences …
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Recent Advances in the Study of Linguistic Relativity in Historical Context
This article outlines the history of empirical research on linguistic relativity, surveys current research, and appraises critically the trends of the past decade, highlighting conceptual and methodological issues. Initial research arose in anthropology from an interest in the significance of language differences for thought, but was soon followed by work in psychology targeting the assessment of language and thought connections. During a subsequ…
The Influence of Language Structure and Function on Thought
Given the centrality of language in human life, scholars and others have long been interested in whether and how languages might influence thought. This paper describes a line of anthropological research on this issue that moves from a structural comparison of number marking in American English and Yucatec Maya to an assessment of associated cognitive effects on classification and memory, to an exploration of the functional factors involved in th…
Linguistics (15 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (10 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Linguistic relativity (6 works)