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Benjamin Lee Whorf. Every normal person in the world, past infancy in years, can and does talk. By virtue of that fact, every person — civilized or uncivilized — carries through life certain naive but deeply rooted ideas about talking and its relation to thinking.
Benjamin Lee Whorf (April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist, anthropologist, and chemical engineer. Although he never took an academic appointment, his work greatly influenced studies of language, culture, and thinking.
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May 11, 2018 · Benjamin Lee Whorf. American linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) is remembered for a group of speculative ideas about thought and language that remain controversial but have exerted strong influence on popular scientific thinking. The most famous of these ideas is the so-called Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, derived largely from Whorf's research ...
The term “Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis” was coined by Harry Hoijer in his contribution (Hoijer 1954) to a conference on the work of Benjamin Lee Whorf in 1953. But anyone looking in Hoijer’s paper for a clear statement of the hypothesis will look in vain.
Benjamin Lee Whorf ( / hwɔːrf /; April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer best known for proposing the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. He believed that the structures of different languages shape how their speakers perceive and conceptualize the world.
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Benjamin Lee Whorf. MIT Press, 1956 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 278 pages. The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (1897--1941) grasped the relationship between human language and...
In isolating significant categories, Whorf proceeds as follows: Formal criteria of somewhat heterodox kinds define the linguistic category; the linguistic analyst (Whorf) then searches for the "idea" that "unifies" the category (p. 8i); which is then expressed in the linguist's metalanguage.
