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LINGUIST List 17.3797

Fri Dec 22 2006

Disc: Language and Environment

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        1.    Louis Hillman, Language and Environment
Message 1: Language and Environment
Date: 15-Dec-2006
From: Louis Hillman <lhillmanbrockport.edu>
Subject: Language and Environment


On December 14th, on National Public Radio, I heard an essay by Andre 
Codrescu about translation. Here is a link: 
 
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6626808 
 
If anyone else heard it, I would be interested in your reaction to it. 
 
I was astonished to hear Codrescu claim that the physical environment in 
which humans live was at least partially responsible for their language. I 
remember some 45 years ago reading a similar statement about the emergence 
of the dialect of South African English, in which it was claimed that the 
difference between that dialect and Received Pronunciation in England was 
caused by the hotter climate of South Africa. 
 
What have our colleagues in in other academic disciplines learned about 
language?



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