Language and Literature

From: Studies in American Indian Literatures | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: White, Frederick H | Copyright information

I am privileged to offer these three articles in this SAIL special section focusing on Native American languages. While it is complicated to address the significance of Indigenous languages, it is definitely worth our effort to see how language and literature intertwine. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, though discredited for various reasons, still bears witness that according to the first premise, linguistic determinism, our thinking is determined by language. While many people, especially Americ...

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