Re: OT: Good Books?
| From: | John Quijada <jq_ithkuil@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 4, 2004, 19:23 |
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J. K. Hoffman wrote:
>So, can anyone suggest any good books, especially for the linguistically
>challenged, that might help with conlanging?
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The following books are guaranteed to open one's eyes to what is possible
in language beyond Indo-European and should get the conlanging creative
juices flowing:
"Language, Thought and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf"
edited by John B. Carroll. The essays toward the last half of the book are
what you want.
"Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind"
by George Lakoff.
"Semantics, Culture, and Cognition: Universal Human Concepts in Culture-
Specific Configurations" by Anna Wierzbicka
--John Quijada