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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 404
EAN: 9780262730068
ISBN: 0262730065
Label: The MIT Press
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 290
Publication Date: March 15, 1964
Publisher: The MIT Press
Sales Rank: 50926
Studio: The MIT Press

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- beyond the box
This was a most unusual reading experience which prompted contemplation of new(to me) views of reality which were totally unexpected at the outset. I bought this book after reading Against Method by Paul Feyerabend,in which Feyerabend cites this book as a reference supporting his assertion that Western scientific methodology contains many unrecognized assumptions. That Whorf was regarded that highly by Feyerabend is impressive,since Whorf was not formally educated as a linguist, but as a chemical engineer. Whorf was able to pursue his interest in linguistics on his own terms and it is a testimony to his brilliance that he received much acclaim from lettered members in the field. The essays in this book were assembled by John B. Carroll after Whorf's death. They are arranged chronologically,which has the unfortunate result of placing the most technical articles toward the front of the book. The detailed analysis using ... Read More

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- Meta-Linguistics for a Modern Day View of the World
I used this book in research back in the 60's, while trying to create a theory of learning based on game theory, linguistic analysis and linguistic relativism. Long past my senior thesis days, Whorf's work still intrigues me, especially now that physics has revealed new levels of reality. Back in the 60's, I was just beginning to understand that Wittgenstein was essentially a metaphysician, and that his 'linguistic analysis' was breaking down our conventional view of the world, opening up new approaches to thinking about the nature of reality, Time, Memory, and Meaning. Whorf's writing on the cultural relativism of language and thought was instrumental in opening my awareness to the possibilities of meta-linguistics. Far from being out of favor as one reviewer has stated, Satir-Whorf is the language of today's science and knowledge, and describes the gradual change in how we perceive the world.

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- Whorf is real linguistics
The reviewer claiming that Whorf is out of favor in the field of linguistics has a skewed idea of the disipline. Plenty of first-class linguists, including John Lucy, Stephen Levinson, Eve Danziger, Michael Silverstein, Penny Lee, John Gumperz and others take direct inspiration in their cutting-edge research from Whorf.

It is important to understand that the term "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis" is a misnomer, a misreading that developed in the positivistic 50s after Whorf was dead. He was too smart to refer to his "Principal of Linguistic Relativity" (his term) as a 'hypothesis'. It's closer to an axiom, not an empirically testable hypothesis. This book is not for beginners, but read it carefully and you will gain much insight into the connections between language and thought. If you want a discussion of language for total beginners, Edward Sapir's book _Language_, first published in 1921 has been in continuous ... Read More

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- Real Linguistics
It's an interesting topic, no doubt, but the Whorf Hypothesis has gone out of favor in the field of linguistics.
I recommend Pinker for not-too-technical linguistic reading.

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