LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, and REALITY
Subtitle: Selected writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
By: Edited and with an introduction by John B. Carroll. Foreword by Stuart Chase.
Series: Technology Press books in the social sciences
Publisher: Technology Press of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Published: 1956
Place of publication: [Cambridge]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0262230038; 0262730065
Subjects: Language and languages; Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 271-278.
Dates in parenthesis in Section Titles are dates of composition of the corresponding article or paper.
Table of contents: label: Foreword
title: Foreword, by Stuart Chase
pagenum: v; label: Introduction
title: Introduction, by John B. Carroll
pagenum: 1; title: On the connection of ideas (1927)
pagenum: 35; title: On psychology (date unknown)
pagenum: 40; title: A central Mexican inscription combining Mexican and Maya day signs (1931)
pagenum: 43; title: The punctual and segmentative aspects of verbs in Hopi (1936)
pagenum: 51; title: An American Indian model of the universe (1936)
pagenum: 57; title: A linguistic consideration of thinking in primitive communities (circa 1936)
pagenum: 65; title: Grammatical categories (1937)
pagenum: 87; title: Discussion of Hopi linguistics (1937)
pagenum: 102; title: Some verbal categories of Hopi (1938)
pagenum: 112; title: Language: plan and conception of arrangement (1938)
pagenum: 125; title: The relation of habitual thought and behavior to language (1939)
pagenum: 134; title: Gestalt technique of stem composition in Shawnee (1939)
pagenum: 160; title: Decipherment of the linguistic portion of the Maya hieroglyphs (1940)
pagenum: 173; title: Linguistic factors in the terminology of Hopi architecture (1940)
pagenum: 199; title: Science and linguistics (1940)
pagenum: 207; title: Linguistics as an exact science (1940)
pagenum: 220; title: Languages and logic (1941)
pagenum: 233; title: Language, mind, and reality (1941)
pagenum: 246; label: Bibliography
title: A. Published writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
pagenum: 271; label: Bibliography
title: B. Unpublished manuscripts (selected)
pagenum: 275; label: Bibliography
title: C. Books and articles relating to Whorf's writings (selected)
pagenum: 276