ABSTRACT
The importance of the crossroads constituted by language, psychology, and culture was acknowledged early on in the history of psychology. The journal Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft , established in 1860, was conceived precisely for this purpose, namely, to reveal insights about the human psyche that could be discovered at these crossroads (cf. Lazarus, 1861; Lazarus & Steinhal, 1860). The issue has occupied a prominent position in human intellectual history, and its current form was shaped by a number of eminent scholars (e.g., Boas, 1949; von Humboldt, 1843; Sapir, 1951; Whorf, 1956). The two central questions driving this field are: Does language influence, shape, or perhaps even determine human cognitive activities? And the flip side of the coin: Do cognitive processes affect language?
