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8Linguistic Relativity Today. Language, Mind, Society, and the Foundations of Linguistic Anthropology, written by Danesi, MJournal of Cognition and Culture 23 (1-2): 259-263. 2023.
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27Linguistic Relativity and Its Relation to Analytic PhilosophyStudia Semiotyczne 31 (2): 201-226. 2017.The history of so-called ‘linguistic relativity’ is an odd and multifaceted one. After knowing alternate fortunes and being treated by different academic branches, today there are some new ways of investigating the language-thought-reality problem that put into dialogue the latest trends in language-related disciplines generate room for philosophical themes previously overlooked, reassess the very idea of linguistic relativity, despite its popularized versions which have circulated for decades a…Read more
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313Il linguaggio come collante tra menti individuali e socialità umanaIn Gaia Bagnati, Alice Morelli & Melania Cassan (eds.), Le varietà del naturalismo, Edizioni Ca' Foscari. pp. 171-179. 2019.The pragmatist tradition in philosophy has left a sound legacy in many contemporary research fields. John Dewey’s continuist and emergentist approach to the nature-or-nurture problem in relation to the individual human mind has been regained lately in evolutionist psychology and related disciplines. For Dewey, language plays a fundamental role in creating and maintaining this continuity between the individual mind and the social and physical environment humans inhabit. The present article will f…Read more
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29Is Linguistic Relativity a Kind of Relativism?Paradigmi. Rivista di Critica Filosofica 2019 (3): 415-428. 2019.This paper aims to shed light on the terminological and conceptual area around linguistic relativity (nowadays a mostly empirically conceived problem), namely the relations with relativism as a philosophical position. Throughout history and up to now there has been a degree of confusion in handling the terms ‘linguistic relativity’, ‘linguistic relativism’, ‘linguistic determinism’ and the like, all in a more or less conscious fashion. Here it is clarified that linguistic relativity, at least as…Read more
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Alumnus, 2020
Lisbon, Portugal
Areas of Specialization
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Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Linguistics |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Philosophy of Mind |
Languages |
Philosophy of Language, Miscellaneous |