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   The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language. Geoffrey K. Pullum. How reliable are all those stories about the number of Eskimo words for snow? How can lamps, flags, and parrots be libelous? How might Star Trek’s Commander Spock react to Noam Chomsky’s theories of language?

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   Jan 1, 2006 · This study argues that the time is ripe to redeem this evidentiary bias, and advocates a multidisciplinary approach towards the Whorfian question, in which insights from laboratory settings are...

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   The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax Once the public has decided to accept something as an interesting fact, it becomes almost impossible to get the acceptance rescinded. The persistent interestingness and symbolic usefulness overrides any lack of factuality. For instance, the notion that dinosaurs were stupid, slow-moving

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   The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax, and other irreverent essays on the study of language. Contents. FOREWORD, by James D. McCawley vii. 1. Prologue: The TOPIC ... COMMENT column. PART I Fashions and Tendencies. 2. Watch out for the current 9. 3. The stranger in the bar 16. 4.

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   How does Martin track the Great Eskimo Vo cabulary hoax?

   • Martin tracks the great Eskimo vo- cabulary hoax through successively more careless repetitions and embroiderings in a number of popular books on language. Roger Brown's Words and Things (1958, 234-36), attributing the example to Whorf, provides an early example of careless popularization and perversion of the issue.

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   What does an Eskimo say about snow?

   • To an Eskimo, this all-inclusive word would be almost unthinkable; he would say that falling snow, slushy snow, and so on, are sensuously and operationally different, different things to contend with; he uses different wards for them and for other kinds of snow. (Whorf 1940; in Carroll 1956, 216)

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   What is the 'snow terms' hoax about?

   • What it's actually about is intellectual sloth. Among all the hundreds of people making published contributions to the great Eskimo vocabulary hoax, no one had acquired any evidence about how long the purported list of snow terms really was, or what words were on it, or what criteria were used in deciding what to put on the list.

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   Do Eskimos have different words for snow?

   • In the study of language, one case surpasses all others in its degree of ubiquity, and the present chapter is devoted to it: it is the notion that Eskimos have bucketloads of different words for snow. What I do here is very little more than an extended review and elabo- ration on Laura Martin's wonderful American Anthropologist report of 1986.

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