Benjamin Lee Whorf

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amateur scholar fire prevention engineer human linguist

Benjamin Lee Whorf was an American linguist best known for the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, which proposes that the structure of a language influences its speakers’ cognition and worldview.

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Benjamin Lee Whorf canonical 5
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instanceOf amateur scholar ⓘ
fire prevention engineer ⓘ
human ⓘ
linguist ⓘ
birthDate 1897-04-24 ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship United States of America ⓘ
deathDate 1941-07-26 ⓘ
educatedAt Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ
employer The Hartford Financial Services Group ⓘ
surface form: Hartford Fire Insurance Company
familyName Benjamin Lee Whorf self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Whorf
fieldOfWork anthropological linguistics ⓘ
comparative linguistics ⓘ
fire prevention engineering ⓘ
linguistics ⓘ
fullName Benjamin Lee Whorf self-link ⓘ
givenName Benjamin ⓘ
influenced George Lakoff ⓘ
Noam Chomsky ⓘ
anthropological linguistics ⓘ
cognitive linguistics ⓘ
influencedBy Edward Sapir ⓘ
Franz Boas ⓘ
knownFor Sapir–Whorf hypothesis ⓘ
linguistic relativity ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName English ⓘ
nationality American ⓘ
nativeLanguage English ⓘ
notableWork Language, Thought, and Reality ⓘ
Science and Linguistics ⓘ
The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language ⓘ
occupation engineer ⓘ
fire inspector ⓘ
linguist ⓘ
researchInterest Native American languages ⓘ
grammar ⓘ
linguistic relativity ⓘ
semantics ⓘ
studiedLanguage Hopi people ⓘ
surface form: Hopi

Maya languages ⓘ
Nahuatl ⓘ
Uto-Aztecan languages ⓘ
studiedUnder Edward Sapir ⓘ
theory language influences thought ⓘ
linguistic categories affect cognition ⓘ
workLocation Connecticut ⓘ
Hartford ⓘ

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