Language, Thought and Reality
Published on 23. April 2020
275 pages
978-1-83974-382-5 (ISBN)
Description
Writings by the pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf, including his famous work on the Hopi language as well as general reflections on language and meaning. The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (1897-1941) grasped the relationship between human language and human thinking: how language can shape our innermost thoughts. His basic thesis is that our perception of the world and our ways of thinking about it are deeply influenced by the structure of the languages we speak. The writings collected in this volume include important papers on the Maya, Hopi, and Shawnee languages as well as more general reflections on language and meaning.-Print ed.
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Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- SPECIAL NOTE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ON THE CONNECTION OF IDEAS
- ON PSYCHOLOGY
- A CENTRAL MEXICAN INSCRIPTION COMBINING MEXICAN AND MAYA DAY SIGNS
- THE PUNCTUAL AND SEGMENTATIVE ASPECTS OF VERBS IN HOPI
- AN AMERICAN INDIAN MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE
- A LINGUISTIC CONSIDERATION OF THINKING IN PRIMITIVE COMMUNITIES
- GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES
- DISCUSSION OF HOPI LINGUISTICS
- SOME VERBAL CATEGORIES OF HOPI
- LANGUAGE: PLAN AND CONCEPTION OF ARRANGEMENT
- A. The sentence
- B. The word (the word as part of the sentence)
- THE RELATION OF HABITUAL THOUGHT AND BEHAVIOR TO LANGUAGE
- GESTALT TECHNIQUE OF STEM COMPOSITION IN SHAWNEE
- DECIPHERMENT OF THE LINGUISTIC PORTION OF THE MAYA HIEROGLYPHS
- LINGUISTIC FACTORS IN THE TERMINOLOGY OF HOPI ARCHITECTURE
- SCIENCE AND LINGUISTICS
- LINGUISTICS AS AN EXACT SCIENCE
- LANGUAGES AND LOGIC
- LANGUAGE, MIND, AND REALITY
- I
- II
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- A. PUBLISHED WRITINGS OF BENJAMIN LEE WHORF
- ?. UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS (SELECTED)
- C. BOOKS AND ARTICLES RELATING TO WHORF'S WRITINGS (SELECTED)
