Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf / Edition 1

by Benjamin Lee Whorf

Overview

'The hypothesis suggested by Benjamin Lee Whorf that the structure of a person's language is a factor in the way in which he understands reality and behaves with respect to it has attracted the attention of linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, and philosophers, as well as a large segment of the public.' -Science

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900262730067
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	03/15/1964
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Benjamin Lee Whorf, originally trained as a chemical engineer, began his work in linguistics in the 1920s and became well known for his studies of the Hopi language. He studied with the famous linguist Edward Sapir at Yale University, formulating with him the Sapir– Whorf Hypothesis of linguistic relativity.


Stephen C. Levinson is Director of the Language and Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands.


Stephen C. Levinson is Director of the Language and Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Stuart Chase
Introduction by John B. Carrol
1 On the connection of ideas (1927)
2 On psychology (date unkown)
3 A central Mexican inscription combining Mexican and Maya day signs (1931)
4 The punctual and segmentative aspects of verbs in Hopi (1936)
5 An American Indian model of the universe (circa 1936)
6 A linguistic consideration of thinking in primitive communities (circa 1936)
7 Grammatical categories (1937)
8 Discussion of Hopi linguistics (1937)
9 Some verbal categories of Hopi (1938)
10 Language: plan and conception of arrangement (1938)
11 The relation of habitual thought and behavior to language (1939)
12 Gestalt technique of stem composition in Shawnee (1939)
13 Decipherment of the linguistic portion of the Maya hieroglyphs (1940)
14 Linguistic factors in the terminology of Hopi architecture (1940)
15 Science and linguistics (1940)
16 Linguistics as an exact science (1940)
17 Language and logic (1941)
18 Language, mind, and reality (1941)
Bibliography

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An essay showing why Hopi is superior to English as a scientific language, a criticism of Basic English as Complex English, and an account of the semantics of fire prevention are not only readable but delightful.

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"An essay showing why Hopi is superior to English as a scientific language, a criticism of Basic English as Complex English, and an account of the semantics of fire prevention are not only readable but delightful."—The New Yorker

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