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Language, thought, and reality : selected writings / of Benjamin Lee Whorf ; edited and with an introduction by John B. Carroll ; foreword by Stuart Chase.

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  • ISBN: 9780262230032
  • ISBN: 0262230038
  • ISBN: 9780262730068
  • ISBN: 0262730065
  • Physical Description: xi, 278 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: [Cambridge, Mass.] : Technology Press of Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; ©1956.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-278).
Formatted Contents Note:
On the connection of ideas (1927) -- On psychology (date unknown) -- A central Mexican inscription combining Mexican and Maya day signs (1931) -- The punctual and segmentative aspects of verbs in Hopi (1936) -- An American Indian model of the universe (circa 1936) -- A linguistic consideration of thinking in primitive communities (circa 1936) -- Grammatical categories (1937) -- Discussion of Hopi linguistics (1937) -- Some verbal categories of Hopi (1938) -- Language : plan and conception of arrangement (1938) -- The relation of habitual thought and behavior to language (1939) -- Gestalt technique of stem composition in Shawnee (1939) -- Decipherment of the linguistic portion of the Maya hieroglyphs (1940) -- Linguistic factors in the terminology of Hopi architecture (1940) -- Science and linguistics (1940) -- Linguistics as an exact science (1940) -- Languages and logic (1941) -- Language, mind, and reality (1941).
Action Note:
Heritage 2017
Subject:
Language and languages.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
Language and languages.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
Language > Essays.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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