Q:Read the bio below and try to give details on benjamin lee whorf 's: - work institutions - birth date - parents - influenced - relatives - caption - death date - field - spouse - name - death place - birth place - known for - image size - nationality - alma mater - influences - children - image Bio: benjamin lee whorf -lrb- ; april 24 , 1897 -- july 26 , 1941 -rrb- was an american linguist and fire prevention engineer . whorf is widely known as an advocate for the idea that because of linguistic differences in grammar and usage , speakers of different languages conceptualize and experience the world differently . this principle has frequently been called the '' sapir -- whorf hypothesis '' , after him and his mentor edward sapir , but whorf called it the principle of linguistic relativity , because he saw the idea as having implications similar to einstein 's principle of physical relativity . throughout his life whorf was a chemical engineer by profession , but as a young man he took up an interest in linguistics . at first this interest drew him to the study of biblical hebrew , but he quickly went on to study the indigenous languages of mesoamerica on his own . professional scholars were impressed by his work and in 1930 he received a grant to study the nahuatl language in mexico ; on his return home he presented several influential papers on the language at linguistics conferences . this led him to begin studying linguistics with edward sapir at yale university while still maintaining his day job at the hartford fire insurance company . during his time at yale he worked on the description of the hopi language , and the historical linguistics of the uto-aztecan languages , publishing many influential papers in professional journals . he was chosen as the substitute for sapir during his medical leave in 1938 . whorf taught his seminar on '' problems of american indian linguistics '' . in addition to his well known work on linguistic relativity , he wrote a grammar sketch of hopi and studies of nahuatl dialects , proposed a deciphering of maya hieroglyphic writing , and published the first attempt towards a reconstruction of uto-aztecan . after his death from cancer in 1941 his manuscripts were curated by his linguist friends who also worked to spread the influence of whorf 's ideas on the relation...
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- work institutions is hartford fire insurance company , yale university- birth date is 24 april 1897- parents is harry whorf sara lee- influenced is george , linguistic anthropology , m.a.k. halliday lakoff , john a. lucy , michael silverstein- relatives is mike whorf -lrb- nephew -rrb-- caption is benjamin lee whorf- death date is 26 july 1941- field is linguistics , anthropology , fire prevention- spouse is celia inez peckham- name is benjamin whorf- death place is hartford , connecticut- birth place is winthrop , massachusetts- known for is sapir nahuatl linguistics , allophone , cryptotype , maya script -- whorf hypothesis -lrb- linguistic relativity -rrb- ,- image size is 200px- nationality is american- alma mater is massachusetts institute of technology- influences is fabre bertrand russell , c. k. ogden , madame blavatsky d'olivet , edward sapir , albert einstein ,- children is raymond ben whorf robert peckham whorf celia lee whorf- image is blwhorf.jpeg