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Review published In:
Contrastive Linguistics and other Approaches to Language Comparison
Edited by Matthias Hüning and Barbara Schlücker
[Languages in Contrast 12:1] 2012
► pp. 102–106
Book review

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

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| Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Published online: 12 January 2012
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.12.1.08sta
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