Language, Thought, and Reality

Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf

Benjamin Lee Whorf, John B. Carroll, Stephen C. Levinson (Director, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) , Penny Lee

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MIT Press
13 July 2012

Social & cultural anthropology

Series: The MIT Press

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.

By: Benjamin Lee Whorf
Introduction by: John B. Carroll
Edited by: John B. Carroll, Stephen C. Levinson (Director, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), Penny Lee
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: second edition
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780262517751
ISBN 10: 0262517752
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 13 July 2012
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Benjamin Lee Whorf, originally trained as a chemical engineer, began his work in linguistics in the 1920s and became well known for his studies of the Hopi language. He studied with the famous linguist Edward Sapir at Yale University, formulating with him the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis of linguistic relativity. Stephen C. Levinson is Director of the Language and Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands. Stephen C. Levinson is Director of the Language and Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands.