@RUTGERS.ARPA:Q.QUUX@[36.48.0.1] (04/29/85)
From: Alderson@Score Ms. Elgin is indeed a linguist; one of the first textbooks I had in the field was co-authored by her. However, the idea of world-view being affected by language is NOT an out-growth of Chomsky's linguistics, nor of French (derived from American) Structuralism. It was posited during the 20's by one Benjamin Lee Whorf, one of the finest anthropological linguists of the century; it was expanded upon by Edward Sapir, one of the two great pre-structuralist American linguists. The idea is known as the Whorf or Whorf-Sapir hypothesis, and forms the basis for Jack Vance's novel _The Languages of Pao_. Rich Alderson@Score "Linguistics was my business..." -------