Cultural contact and linguistic relativity among the Indians of northwestern California
By: Sean O'Neill.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780806139227
Subjects: Indians of North America -- California, Northern -- Languages; Anthropological linguistics -- California, Northern
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-345) and index.
Table of contents: title: Language and culture in northwestern California; title: Linguistic relativity and the puzzle of northwestern California; title: Geographical spatial orientation; title: Linguistic systems of spatial reference; title: Geography and cosmology; title: The linguistic classifications of time; title: The linguistic construction of time in narrative; title: Classifying experience through language; title: Cultural meaning in everyday vocabulary; title: Language contact, multilingualism, and divergent drift; title: Contact, extremism, and linguistic relativity in northwestern California.