Language, Thought, and Reality, second edition: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee WhorfMIT Press, 13 jul 2012 - 448 páginas Writings by a pioneering linguist, including his famous work on the Hopi language, general reflections on language and meaning, and the "Yale Report." 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. Whorf's ideas about the relation of language and thought have always appealed to a wide audience, but their reception in expert circles has alternated between dismissal and applause. Recently the language sciences have headed in directions that give Whorf's thinking a renewed relevance. Hence this new edition of Whorf's classic work is especially timely. The second edition includes all the writings from the first edition as well as John Carroll's original introduction, a new foreword by Stephen Levinson of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics that puts Whorf's work in historical and contemporary context, and new indexes. In addition, this edition offers Whorf's "Yale Report," an important work from Whorf's mature oeuvre. |
Índice
Introduction | 1 |
1 On the Connection of Ideas | 45 |
2 On Psychology | 51 |
3 A Central Mexican Inscription Combining Mexican and Maya Day Signs | 55 |
4 The Punctual and Segmentative Aspects of Verbs in Hopi | 65 |
5 An American Indian Model of the Universe | 73 |
6 A Linguistic Consideration of Thinking in Primitive Communities | 83 |
7 Grammatical Categories | 113 |
12 Gestalt Technique of Stem Composition in Shawnee | 205 |
13 Decipherment of the Linguistic Portion of the Maya Hieroglyphs | 221 |
14 Linguistic Factors in the Terminology of Hopi Architecture | 255 |
15 Science and Linguistics | 265 |
16 Linguistics as an Exact Science | 281 |
17 Languages and Logic | 299 |
18 Language Mind and Reality | 315 |
The Yale Report | 345 |
8 Discussion of Hopi Linguistics | 131 |
9 Some Verbal Categories of Hopi | 143 |
Plan and Conception of Arrangement | 159 |
11 The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language | 173 |
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