TY  - JOUR
A1  - Haßler, Gerda
T1  - Linguistic relativity and language as epiphenomenon: two contradictory positions
T2  - Confluência. Revista do Instituto de língua portuguesa
N2  - The assumption of linguistics relativity and the definition of languages as epiphenomena are certainly known as two contradictory positions from the last century. But I will start my discussion of them in the period of their appearance and then use this as a basis to evaluate the heuristic value of these positions in present day linguistics. I will start with the definition of language as an epiphenomenon and then I will go on with the linguistic relativity.
The notion of ʽepiphenomenon’ is usually used to exclude certain aspects of a scientific object because they are considered to be deduced from others. In linguistics, restrictions of the research object were made, invoking the notion of ʽepiphenomenonʼ, which was partially done with a polemical attitude, and was always responded to polemically.
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/42179
SN  - 2317-4153
VL  - 2018
IS  - 55
SP  - 82
EP  - 98
ER  -