Language, Thought, and Reality
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Language, Thought, and Reality is a posthumous collection of essays by linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf that presents his influential ideas on how language shapes human thought and perception.
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| instanceOf |
book
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essay collection ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
anthropology
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cognitive science ⓘ linguistics ⓘ |
| author | Benjamin Lee Whorf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkOf | Edward Sapir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralThesis |
different languages lead to different ways of perceiving and conceptualizing the world
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structure of a language affects its speakers’ habitual thought ⓘ |
| containsEssayBy | Benjamin Lee Whorf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| editor | John B. Carroll NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| expandedEditionPublicationYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| expandedEditionPublisher | MIT Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
anthology
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linguistics ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ |
| hasEdition | expanded edition ⓘ |
| hasPart |
“An American Indian Model of the Universe”
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“Grammatical Categories” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Languages and Logic” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Science and Linguistics” NERFINISHED ⓘ “The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReception | highly influential in debates on linguistic relativity ⓘ |
| influenced |
anthropology
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cognitive linguistics ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ psycholinguistics ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
popularizing the idea that language influences thought
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systematic statement of Whorf’s theory of linguistic relativity ⓘ |
| publicationStatus | posthumous ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1956 ⓘ |
| publisher | MIT Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
Native American languages
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Sapir–Whorf hypothesis NERFINISHED ⓘ anthropological linguistics ⓘ linguistic relativity ⓘ relationship between language and thought ⓘ |
| subtitle | Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
philosophers of language
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scholars ⓘ students of linguistics ⓘ |
| timePeriodDiscussed | early 20th century linguistics ⓘ |
| title | Language, Thought, and Reality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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