73: Consequences of Language (with Nick Enfield and Morten Christiansen)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
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The Importance of Language Diversity
There's a lock-in that follows from the historical development of a complex kind of object of cultural accountability, like a language. We only develop in any given culture a subset of those things. A worldview is empowering within your own community, in some sense. But it also draws you away from other ways of seeing the world.
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