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Warum sagen sie das Fraulein? (analysis of the Whorf hypothesis in general semantics)
; ONE ASPECT OF general semantics and language studies that I find particularly significant is the Whorf Hypothesis. Benjamin Lee Whorf studied several American Indian languages and noted that they were structurally quite unlike English and...
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Do words and the rest of our behavior affect each other? A critical response to 'The Language Instinct.'
; ...Orwell, Alfred Korzybski, and Benjamin Lee Whorf erred in what they said about...Library Publishing Company, 1958). Benjamin Lee Whorf, The Relation of Habitual Thought...Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf, (Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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What we do with language--what it does with us.
; ...linguistic relativity implies that, as Whorf scholar Penny Lee wrote: ... although all observers...have come to be known as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, an academic abstraction...not label anything that Sapir or Whorf ever put forward as a hypothesis...
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Do words and the rest of our behavior affect each other? A critical response to The Language Instinct
; ...Orwell, Alfred Korzybski, and Benjamin Lee Whorf erred in what they said about...Library Publishing Company, 1958). Benjamin Lee Whorf, "The Relation of Habitual Thought...Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Who", (Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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Continental divide. (Up Front).
; ...hypothesis. In the early 20th century, the American engineer Benjamin Lee Whorf studied the Hopi Indians, whose language lacks verb...Anthropologists spent the rest of the century knocking Whorf, partly because his idea had been used to postulate...
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WHAT WE DO WITH LANGUAGE - WHAT IT DOES WITH US
; ...linguistic relativity implies that, as Whorf scholar Penny Lee wrote: ...although all observers...have come to be known as the "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis," an academic abstraction...not label anything that Sapir or Whorf ever put forward as a hypothesis...
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(book review)
; ...He begins from the writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf, the American linguist famous for...the Native American language Hopi. Whorf argued that Hopi speakers and Standard...a rhetoricized interpretation of Whorf's linguistic relativity principle...
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Weather: The linguistic truth about kaniktshaq
; ...anthropologists Edward Sapir (1884-1939) and Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) who developed an influential...by their experience of language. Whorf cited several examples in support of the "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis", including the Hopi...
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The Reith Lectures; Word traps and how to avoid them
; ...first by Edward Sapir, then by Benjamin Lee Whorf, two American linguists. Their ideas became known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Sapir stated: "Human...with different labels attached". Whorf's best known claim was that "standard...
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Neil Postman's advice on how to live the rest of your life.(Janet Sternberg)(Lecture)
; ...scholars who emphasized the important role language plays in shaping human affairs, scholars such as Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf. But I have Postman to thank for introducing me to the work of great scholars such as Alfred Korzybski, Wendell Johnson...
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