This volume deals with linguistic relativity and focuses much of its attention on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic determinism. 15 linguists contribute to the body of work in this title, incorporating topics from linguistic relativity and translation to language and thought.

1. Preface (by Putz, Martin); 2. Introduction (by Putz, Martin); 3. Towards a 'full pedigree' of the 'Sapir-Whorf hypothesis': From Locke to Lucy (by Koerner, E.F.K.); 4. How relativistic are Humboldt's "Weltansichten"? (by Trabant, Jurgen); 5. When is 'linguistic relativity' Whorf's linguistic relativity? (by Lee, Penny); 6. Linguistic relativity and translation (by House, Juliane); 7. Humboldt, Whorf and the roots of ecolinguistics (by Muhlhausler, Peter); 8. Loci of diversity and convergence in thought and language (by Chafe, Wallace); 9. On linguocentrism (by Enfield, N.J.); 10. From the Jurassic dark: Linguistic relativity as evolutionary necessity (by Hays, Paul R.); 11. Neuro-cognitive structure in the interplay of language and thought (by Lamb, Sydney M.); 12. Language and thought: Collective tools for individual use (by Kronenfeld, David B.); 13. Ontological classifiers as polycentric categories, as seen in Shona class 3 nouns (by Palmer, Gary B.); 14. Linguistic relativity and the plasticity of categorization: Universalism in a New Key (by MacLaury, Robert E.); 15. Linguistic relativity as a function of ideological deixis (by Hawkins, Bruce); 16. Why we subject incorporate (in English): a post-Whorfian view (by Thornburg, Linda L.); 17. Metalinguistic awareness in linguistic relativity: Cultural and subcultural practices across Chinese dialect communities (by Zhou, Minglang); 18. Subject Index