Discussion Details
| Title: | Language and Environment |
| Submitter: | Louis Hillman |
| Description: | 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? |
| Date Posted: | 22-Dec-2006 |
| Linguistic Field(s): | General Linguistics |
| LL Issue: | 17.3797 |
| Posted: | 22-Dec-2006 |
