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by Benjamin Lee Whorf; John B. Carroll (Editor); Stephen C. Levinson (Editor)


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Writings by a pioneering linguist, including his famous work on the Hopi language, general reflections on language and meaning, and the "Yale Report."

The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (1897-1941) grasped the relationship between human language and human thinking: how language can shape our innermost thoughts. His basic thesis is that our perception of the world and our ways of thinking about it are deeply influenced by the structure of the languages we speak. The writings collected in this volume include important papers on the Maya, Hopi, and Shawnee languages, as well as more general reflections on language and meaning.

Whorf's ideas about the relation of language and thought have always appealed to a wide audience, but their reception in expert circles has alternated between dismissal and applause. Recently the language sciences have headed in directions that give Whorf's thinking a renewed relevance. Hence this new edition of Whorf's classic work is especially timely.

The second edition includes all the writings from the first edition as well as John Carroll's original introduction, a new foreword by Stephen Levinson of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics that puts Whorf's work in historical and contemporary context, and new indexes. In addition, this edition offers Whorf's "Yale Report," an important work from Whorf's mature oeuvre.

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  • Title Language, Thought, and Reality, Second Edition: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
  • Author Benjamin Lee Whorf; John B. Carroll (Editor); Stephen C. Levinson (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition second edition
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press
  • Date 2012-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780262517751 / 0262517752
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.06 x 5.5 x 0.86 in (20.47 x 13.97 x 2.18 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Language and languages, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011053173
  • Dewey Decimal Code 400

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.
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