The claim that crosslinguistic disparities foster differences in nonlinguistic thought, often referred to as 'linguistic relativity', has for some time been the subject of intense debate. For much of
A Smithsonian Best Science Book of the YearWinner of the PROSE award for Best Book in Language & LinguisticsCarved into our past and woven into our present, numbers shape our perceptions of the world
Carved into our past, woven into our present, numbers shape our perceptions of the world and of ourselves much more than we commonly think. Numbers and the Making of Us is a sweeping account of how nu
Everett (U. of Miami) presents empirical evidence concerning the long-debated questions of whether language affects how people think and whether patterns of thought varies according to people's native
