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Language death and diversity: philosophical and linguistic implications ...
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Needing the other: the anatomy of the Mass Noun Thesis ...
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Othering is the construction and identification of the self or in-group and the other or out-group in mutual, unequal opposition by attributing relative inferiority and/or radical alienness to the other/out-group. Othering can be “crude” or “sophisticated”, the defining difference being that in the latter case othering depends on the interpretation of the other/out-group in terms that are applicable only to the self/in-group but that are unconsciously assumed to be universal. The Mass Noun Thesis, the idea that all nouns in certain languages are grammatically and folk-ontologically similar to mass nouns in English, is an example of such sophisticated othering. According to this Thesis, (a) count nouns refer to discrete objects and mass nouns to stuffs; (b) the other’s language has only mass nouns and thus no count nouns; and therefore, (c) the other’s folk-ontology is an ontology of mass stuffs only. There is much evidence, however, that folk-ontology is independent from language. This paper argues that the ...
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FOS Languages and literature; FOS Philosophy, ethics and religion; FOS Social sciences; Japanese linguistics; Linguistics; Philosophy; Social sciences
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.17613/m66m4q
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