Sapir-Whorf Complete

Chinese Garden, Montreal Botanical Gardens

This paper is now complete, all bar the conclusion. As I do not plan any further revisions to the text up to that point, I have prepared a pdf file, which can be downloaded from here:

* Download the final draft

If you wish to comment on the paper, please do so here. If you wish to cite the paper, it should be cited as Duffield, Nigel. 2011. Sapir-Whorf Redux: What might be right about Linguistic Relativity. Manuscript, University of Sheffield.

Honesty and Wealth (cross posting)

The path down from a small shrine on Rokko Mountain

In constructing the piece that will follow on the heels of this one—see, dogs already!—I was reminded of this quotation by Bertrand Russell:

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.

Poor, but honest?! Shouldn't that be the other way around? The truth conditions might be the same, but the implicatures are quite different. What was Bertie thinking of?!