if fundamental variation between languages & their presumably entangled worldviews, exist - then what about the constitution of our common humanity. Could there be unbridgeable gulfs in thinking & perception between groups speaking different languages?
https://aeon.co/essays/does-language-mirror-the-mind-an-intellectual-history
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that's what some postmodernists appear to uphold, but still they write about it voluminously, and, perhaps, expect understanding?
right. more work on metaphor is being done.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333438601_Dinergy_The_Primordial_Meta-Pattern_in_Nature
@holon42 And then there's also Lakoff and his work with metaphor, frame and narrative :)