How Do You Say ‘Disagreement’ in Pirahã?
The New York Times, 22/março/2012. "Even some of Dr. Everett’s admirers fault him for representing himself as a lonely voice of truth against an all-powerful Chomskian orthodoxy bent on stopping his ideas dead. It’s certainly the view advanced in the documentary, “The Grammar of Happiness,” which accuses unnamed linguists of improperly influencing the Brazilian government to deny his request to return to Pirahã territory, either with the film crew or with a research team from M.I.T., led by Ted Gibson, a professor of cognitive science. (It’s scheduled to run on the Smithsonian Channel in May.)"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/books/a-new-book-and-film-about-rare-amazonian-language.html


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