Linguist John Lucy presents 54th JAR Distinguished Lecture
April 12, 2023
The Journal of Anthropological Research hosts its 54th Distinguished Lecture with American linguist and psychologist John A. Lucy from the University of Chicago, who will address The Influence of Language Structure and Function on Thought: A Comparison of Yucatec Maya and American English.
The lecture is Thursday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Anthropology lecture hall 163, followed Friday, April 28, at noon with Lessons for Anthropological Fieldwork from Research on Linguistic Relativity.
Within anthropology, three types of influence of language on thought have been important in the discipline: the semiotic, the impact of having a symbolic language at all (for example, in studies of human ontogeny and phylogeny); the structural, the impact of using particular lexical and grammatical structures (such as in studies of cognitive and cultural variability); and the functional, the impact of developing specialized uses of language such as literacy, standardization, ritual (for example, in studies of education and language revitalization).
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