Humboldt, worldview and language / [electronic resource]
Underhill, James W.(James William),author.
This is a short academic introduction to the work of the German 19th-century philologist  Wilhelm von Humboldt  and with theories loosely referred to in connection with the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-159) and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
The word is a world (La parole est un monde) -- What do we have in mind when we talk about language? -- What do we see in the term worldview? -- Boas -- Sapir -- Whorf -- Worldview (Weltanschauung or Weltansicht) -- Sprache -- The work of the mind -- Form -- Creativity, culture and character -- Catching the character -- A seeing and feeling worldview -- Four dangers in the comparative approach -- Reformulating the worldview hypothesis -- A final word.
This is a short academic introduction to the work of the German 19th-century philologist  Wilhelm von Humboldt  and with theories loosely referred to in connection with the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis.
Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 1767-1835.
Humboldt, Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1767-1835.
Language and languages
Philosophers
Llenguatge i llengües
Filòsofs