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Publication details [#35074]

Lardiere, Donna. 1992. On the linguistic shaping of thought: Another response to Alfred Bloom. Language in Society 21 (2) : 231–251.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | counterfactivity | linguistics | thought

Language as a subject

Arabic | Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper criticizes Bloom's view that the existence of a specific grammatical counterfactual marker in English, is responsible for the development of a labeled cognitive schema in the English speaker's mind, specific to counterfactual thought.