Language, Culture, and Society: A Book of ReadingsBen G. Blount "Twenty-four articles representing a diversity of interests and approaches have been brought together in this revised collection intended to define and develop topics of central interest to language, culture, and society. Opening pieces include enduring, classic writings by Boas, Sapir, Whorf, Mead, and others, giving the volume an important historical orientation. These contributions form the ground-work for the wide sampling of more recent and contemporary works that follows." -- Back cover. |
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... Whorf , far more than Sapir , however , has been misunderstood and roundly criticized for his views on language and culture . Whereas Whorf attempted to show that the patterns of grammar were related to the way that its speakers ...
... Whorf , far more than Sapir , however , has been misunderstood and roundly criticized for his views on language and culture . Whereas Whorf attempted to show that the patterns of grammar were related to the way that its speakers ...
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... Whorf's work . Lucy identifies the major problems that have hampered understanding of Whorf's writings and contributions . The most common misconception was that Whorf claimed that language determines thought and thus world view . What ...
... Whorf's work . Lucy identifies the major problems that have hampered understanding of Whorf's writings and contributions . The most common misconception was that Whorf claimed that language determines thought and thus world view . What ...
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... Whorf lay in the laws of visual perception discovered by Gestalt psychology ( 1956a : 158 , 163 ) . Whorf illustrated what he had in mind in a comparison of the relative modes of expressing figure and ground relations in English and ...
... Whorf lay in the laws of visual perception discovered by Gestalt psychology ( 1956a : 158 , 163 ) . Whorf illustrated what he had in mind in a comparison of the relative modes of expressing figure and ground relations in English and ...
Contents
American Indian Languages | 9 |
Edward Sapir The Unconscious Patterning | 29 |
Edward Sapir Language | 43 |
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