Whorf's most frequently cited statement regarding Hopi time is the strongly worded introduction of his 1936 paper "An American Indian model of the Universe," which was first published posthumously in ...
Benjamin Lee Whorf
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Looming Ahead
American linguist-anthropologist-hobbyist Benjamin Lee Whorf documented this phenomenon in the 1920s ... Not knowing what to say to an astronomer, I brought up climate change. “We do not yet have ...
Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (1897--1941) grasped the relationship between ... and common sense as though the science of psychology did not exist. Such a one, for instance, is the teacher, ...
Culture Specific versus Universal Customs and Trendencies
Benjamin Whorf, linguist who developed the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis ... again because it devastated the United States in a major way. Even if events like that did not happen, other races are ...
The Effects Of The Languag Language
Profoundly for those that do not speak the same language or even those who do speak ... examined in detail and compared. If we did not have language we would be able to surmise very little about other ...
The Strange Cares of Billionaires
In the great American tradition of starting a club in order to give yourself something to be in charge of, she founded Murmuration, a nonprofit that for a long time did not seem to actually do ...
Peacock Island
From the island he saw the castle and that made him distant from power and from the castle he saw the island and that made him distant from imagining what power can do. The story I’m telling is the ...
Can Language Influence Our Perception of Reality?
They do more than just describe a problem—they ... In the 1930s, two American linguists, Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf popularized the hypothesis that the languages we speak may shape ...
32 of the Best 4th of July Movies & Where to Watch Them
What’s it about: In the summer of 1962, a new kid in town is taken under the wing of a young baseball prodigy and his rowdy team. There is absolutely nothing more American than a bunch of young ...