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LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, and REALITY

Selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf

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An edition of Language, thought, and reality (1956)

LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, and REALITY

Selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf

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Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (1956) is a landmark collection of essays that defines the field of ethnolinguistics and introduces the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (the principle of linguistic relativity). Edited by John B. Carroll, this volume brings together the most influential works of Benjamin Lee Whorf, a pioneering linguist who argued that the structure of the language we speak fundamentally shapes our perception of the world.

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Language Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Addresses, essays, lectures Essays Language and languages Sapir-Whorf, Hypothèse de Langage et langues Ethnolinguistique Psycholinguistique Language Linguistics Anthropological linguistics

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Table of Contents

Foreword. Foreword, by Stuart Chase
Page v
Introduction. Introduction, by John B. Carroll
Page 1
On the connection of ideas (1927)
Page 35
On psychology (date unknown)
Page 40
A central Mexican inscription combining Mexican and Maya day signs (1931)
Page 43
The punctual and segmentative aspects of verbs in Hopi (1936)
Page 51
An American Indian model of the universe (1936)
Page 57
A linguistic consideration of thinking in primitive communities (circa 1936)
Page 65
Grammatical categories (1937)
Page 87
Discussion of Hopi linguistics (1937)
Page 102
Some verbal categories of Hopi (1938)
Page 112
Language: plan and conception of arrangement (1938)
Page 125
The relation of habitual thought and behavior to language (1939)
Page 134
Gestalt technique of stem composition in Shawnee (1939)
Page 160
Decipherment of the linguistic portion of the Maya hieroglyphs (1940)
Page 173
Linguistic factors in the terminology of Hopi architecture (1940)
Page 199
Science and linguistics (1940)
Page 207
Linguistics as an exact science (1940)
Page 220
Languages and logic (1941)
Page 233
Language, mind, and reality (1941)
Page 246
Bibliography. A. Published writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
Page 271
Bibliography. B. Unpublished manuscripts (selected)
Page 275
Bibliography. C. Books and articles relating to Whorf's writings (selected)
Page 276

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Bibliography: p. 271-278.
Dates in parenthesis in Section Titles are dates of composition of the corresponding article or paper.

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Technology Press books in the social sciences

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Dewey Decimal Class
404
Library of Congress
P27 .W53

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 278 p.
Number of pages
278

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OL6197196M
Internet Archive
languagethoughtr00whor
ISBN 13
0262230038, 0262730065
LCCN
56005367
OCLC/WorldCat
306502
LibraryThing
25170

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OL7486040W

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