John Leavitt. Linguistic Relativities: Language Diversity and Modern Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 256 pp. ISBN 978-0521767828

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Katerina Stathi | Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

Published online: 12 January 2012

https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.12.1.08sta

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John Leavitt. Linguistic Relativities: Language Diversity and Modern Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 256 pp. ISBN 978-0521767828

John Leavitt. Linguistic Relativities: Language Diversity and Modern Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 256 pp. ISBN 978-0521767828