George W. Grace - Mapping View

Mapping View

The basic epistemological assumption of the mapping view might be stated as follows: there is a common world out there and our languages are analogous to maps of this world .. Thus, this common world is represented or 'mapped' (with greater or less distortion) by all languages.world up' - in the way they ' classify' its phenomena. The linguistic construction of reality. This model does not corresponds to the reality 1:1,there are distortions and disturbances.Each language has a slightly different mapping which could be explained by the fact,that different people have different understanding, for example having temporal phenomena,see Gumperz / Levinson (eds.) 1997:55 ff .39

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