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	Benjamin Whorf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, the son of Harry and Sarah (Lee) Whorf, Benjamin Lee Whorf graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1918 with a degree in chemical engineering and shortly afterwards began work as a fire prevention engineer (inspector) for the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, pursuing linguistic and anthropological studies as an avocation.
		Whorf's primary area of interest in linguistics was the study of Native American languages, particularly those of Mesoamerica.
		Benjamin Lee Whorf died of cancer at the relatively young age of 44, and much of his most significant work was published posthumously.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benjamin_Lee_Whorf (1814 words)

	Benjamin Whorf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Benjamin Whorf was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts on April 24, 1897.
		Whorf began studying Linguistics at Yale University in 1931 because he was concerned about the conflict between science and religion.
		Whorf studied Linguistics in his spare time as a way to create an understanding of how language worked and unfortunately, he died before much of his studies could be proven.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/uvwxyz/whorf_benjamin.html (377 words)

	Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Whorf's formulation of this "principle of linguistic relativity" is often stereotyped as a "prisonhouse" view of language in which one's thinking and behavior is completely and utterly shaped by one's language.
		Whorf's close analysis of the differences between English and (in one famous instance) the Hopi language raised the bar for an analysis of the relationship between language, thought, and reality by relying on close analysis of grammatical structure, rather than a more impressionistic account of the differences between, say, vocabulary items in a language.
		Whorf was a chemist by training and worked in the insurance industry as a fire prevention engineer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sapir-Whorf_Hypothesis (2666 words)

	The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
		Whorf devised the weaker theory of linguistic relativity: "We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe..." (1940/1956).
		Schlesinger attacks Whorf's flimsy thesis support: "...the mere existence of such linguistic diversities is insufficient evidence for the parallelist claims of a correspondence between language on the one hand and cognition and culture, on the other, and for the determinist claim of the latter being determined by the former" (1991:18).
		Schlesinger agrees: "Whorf made far-reaching claims about the pervasive effects of language on the mental life of a people, and all that experimental psychologists managed to come up with were such modest results as the effect of the vocabulary of a language on the discriminability of color chips" (1991:30).
	www.angelfire.com /journal/worldtour99/sapirwhorf.html (3081 words)

	What Whorf Really Said
		Whorf does not mean that the Hopi do not understand what time is; he claims that the Hopi do not see time and use tenses the way we do.
		Whorf, in an analysis of Hopi grammar, wrote that "in Hopi however all phase terms, like 'summer, morning', etc., are not nouns but a kind of adverb" (Whorf, pg.
		Whorf suggests that we have problems with this counterintuitive situation because our grammar forces us to construct sentences and in turn ideas into actor-action pairs where events are caused by something else.
	www.nickyee.com /ponder/whorf.html (4209 words)

	AllRefer.com - Benjamin Lee Whorf (Language And Linguistics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Benjamin Lee Whorf[hwOrf] Pronunciation Key, 1897–1941, American linguist and anthropologist, b.
		Although he was trained in chemical engineering and worked for an insurance company, Whorf made substantial contributions to Mayan and Aztec linguistics.
		Instead, it posits language as a finite array of formal (lexical and grammatical) categories that group an infinite variety of experiences into usable classes, vary across cultures, and, as a guide to the interpretation of experiences, influence thought.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Whorf-Be.html (255 words)

	The Mind of Benjamin Whorf
		Benjamin Lee Whorf was an amateur linguistic, it is true, but he was as well an amateur evolutionary biologist, botanist, theologian, and physicist, and his advocacy of linguistic relativity cannot be understand separately from his other avocations.
		Whorf remained with the Hartford for the rest of his short life, developing a national reputation as an expert in industrial fire prevention and authoring several articles on the subject, including one, "Blazing Icicles," that offered a linguistic interpretation of fire prevention.
		Benjamin Lee Whorf wanted to be a revolutionary scientist, and though he did not succeed, it was not for lack of trying; indeed, his ambition knew no bounds.
	mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11072 /Whorf/mindblw.htm (3778 words)

	UPPSALA UNIVERSITET
		Sapir’s student Benjamin Lee Whorf, however, assiduously carried forth, popularized and supplemented his work and with him the pioneering ideas began to receive their rightful attention.
		Whorf’s emphasis on grammatical differences overlooks the fact that many languages within the same language family, but in entirely different cultures, give rise to almost identical mindsets.
		Nevertheless, Sapir and Whorf and others in the field of anthropology and linguistics who have made similar claims, must be given due credit for turning the light in linguistics research away from static behaviorist ideas to more flexible aspects of human communication.
	www.ludd.luth.se /users/jonsson/Course_papers/Whorf.htm (1204 words)

	Jon Swearingen Paper on Benjamin Lee Whorf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Benjamin Lee Whorf is an important contributor to the field.
		In 1933, Whorf wrote an explanation of Maya characters being at least partly phonetic in nature, a view which was 50 years out of date among his contemporary Maya scholars.
		Whorf goes on to criticize Byrne as using old grammar models and techniques of study.
	www.unm.edu /~jonswear/WhorfPaper.html (1296 words)

	What We Do With Language and What It Does With Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		According to psychologist Steven Pinker, both Whorf and Korzybski presented linguistic relativity as a single-valued, absolutistic and uni-directional belief that “language determines thought.” 3 This “strong version” (and ‘weaker’ ones as well) of the supposed Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is “wrong, all wrong” 4 claims Pinker (widely accepted as an expert in linguistics and psychology).
		Whorf, who died in his forties, noted but was not able to elaborate much on the more practical implications of linguistic relativity.
		Whorf did not deny that the Hopi have used dating or calendars, counted the number of days or duration of events, etc. What he did claim was that the Hopi did not conceptualize “space or time as such” in the reified manner that we do in English and other Indo-European languages.
	www.driveyourselfsane.com /dtibook/whatwedowithlanguage.html (3700 words)

	whorf - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		Benjamin Lee Whorf, a student of Sapir's who had fully absorbed...be in one with dual and triadic forms.
		WHORF, BENJAMIN LEE hworf, 1897 1941, American linguist and...chemical engineering and worked for an insurance company, Whorf made substantial contributions to Mayan and Aztec linguistics...anthropological linguistics, and helped to develop the Sapir Whorf hypothesis.
		With his student Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897 1941) he developed the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, arguing that the limits of language restrict the scope of possible thought and that every...
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	Imagination and insurance
		Lee Whorf unlike Paul Gauguin and Sherwood Anderson stayed at work, moonlighting genius, finding ways to contribute to the intellectual life of this century while dutifully doing their jobs.
		Born on April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, Benjamin Lee Whorf was the oldest of three sons of Harry Whorf, a commercial artist who experimented with playwriting and stage design, and Sarah Lee Whorf.
		The “linguistic relativity” Whorf championed and sought to find “in all those other tongues which by aeons of independent evolution have arrived at different, but equally logical, provisional analyses” would, Whorf believed, provide the necessary “correctives” to the limitations imposed on the world by single language determinism.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/lsf/lavery24.htm (3823 words)

	Books: Language, Thought, and Reality
		"The hypothesis suggested by Benjamin Lee Whorf that the structure of a person's language is a factor in the way in which he understands reality and behaves with respect to it has attracted the attention of linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, as well as a large segment of the public."
		"Benjamin Lee Whorf's scholarly contributions were substantial both in technical linguistics and in the broader area for which he is best known, the relation between language perception and thought....
		The basic thesis, stated by others before Whorf but developed by him and given his name in recent literature, 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....
	cognet.mit.edu /library/books/view?isbn=0262730065 (309 words)

	Keywords » Whorf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Whorf wasn’t really talking about our “perception of reality.” Whorf’s point was that some cultural differences in behavior where linked to conceptual differences arising from linguistic analogies.
		The heart of Whorf’s argument is that the Hopi practice of conducting rituals today to affect the events of tomorrow derives from the analogies drawn from grammatical differences in how English and Hopi deal with the cyclical aspects of time.
		The best work, in my opinion, was done by Whorf, anyway, and when Whorf died, linguistic relativity went into a kind of stasis, with no one around to defend or advance it until it’s “rediscovery” in the last decade or so.
	keywords.oxus.net /archives/2004/08/21/whorf (2465 words)

	Benjamin Lee Whorf, Language, Thought, and Reality, Review by Alan Gullette
		Of the essays in this collection, some deal more or less directly with the "linguistic relativity principle" (also known as the Whorfian or Sapir-Whorfian hypothesis), while others either imply the formulation of the principle in its author's mind or tend to support it with complicated grammatical illustrations from native American languages, especially Hopi.
		Thought is bound to language structurally: "linguistic order embraces all symbolic processes, all processes of reference and of logic" (Whorf, 252).
		Whorf does not go so far as this.
	alangullette.com /essays/philo/whorf.htm (1546 words)

	Lecture 3 (Module 3)
		Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and Benjamin Lee Whorf are the three major scholars who brought these issues to center stage in linguistic anthropology.
		Whorf compared English (a European language) and Hopi (an American Indian language), showing how differences in grammatical categories, such as tense and plurality, between the two languages reveal underlying cultural differences and cognitive orientations between their speakers.
		Whorf himself actually termed it "the linguistic relativity principle", drawing upon the analogy of the relativity principle in physics.
	isc.temple.edu /anth127/Course/Lectures/lecture3.html (619 words)

	Benjamin Lee Whorf
		Whorf points out that this view of language was universal in the West because no one knew of any exceptions to it.
		Whorf considered that the name-giving aspect (which produces the segmentation of nature into objects or signs) is an aspect of grammar.
		In Whorf ’s view the grammatical aspect of language overrides and controls the reference or name-giving aspect.
	www.modern-thinker.co.uk /5%20-%20Benjamin%20Lee%20Whorf.htm (1447 words)

	Quia - Class Page - Mayan Language Module
		Sapir and Whorf were concerned not simply with differences in vocabulary, but also with major differences in structures.
		Whorf, realising how vitally important the concept of time is in Western physics (for, without it, there can be no velocity or acceleration) developed an idea of what a Hopi physics might look like.
		As far as Eskimos are concerned, experts can come up with maybe a dozen words for snow in their languages, which is around as many as we have in English.
	www.quia.com /pages/maya.html (1279 words)

	Benjamin Lee Whorf -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Whorf's famous thesis of linguistic relativity implied that the particular language a person learns and uses determines the framework of his perception and thought.
		According to some scholars, Benjamin was a deacon under a bishop named Abdas during the reign of King Yezdigerd in Persia.
		Benjamin Franklin served as the U.S. Ambassador to France.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9076903?tocId=9076903 (726 words)

	Preamble: Benjamin Lee Whorf
		One of Whorf's insights still actively being researched nearly 50 years after his death concerns our cultural notion of time as a verbal hallucination which we project onto reality and see there.
		Continuing Whorf's work, I've been honored to attend, since 1992, not one but six (the seventh is next month) Dialogues between Western and Indigenous Scientists and thinkers.
		This variety in the basic makeup of human languages exemplifies Whorf's famous line about the profound worldview and cosmological changes that occur in changing from one language to another, as well as Einstein's deep linguistic point in relativity.
	www.enformy.com /isss-da2.htm (482 words)

	Amazon.com: Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The career of Benjamin Lee Whorf might, on the one hand, be described as that of a businessman of specialized talents-one of those individuals who by the application of out-of-the-ordinary training and knowledge together with devotion and insight can be so useful to any kind of business organization.
		This is something Whorf stresses throughout and the so-called `primitive' languages of for example, the native Americans, is far from this western perspective.
		Whorf (1899-1941), trained as a chemical engineer, worked as a fire prevention consultant and did original work in linguistic anthropology.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262730065?v=glance (1147 words)

	3quarksdaily: Benjamin Lee Whorf Resurrected?
		In 1956, Benjamin Lee Whorf published Language, Thought, and Reality, which he concluded with the following.
		A year later, Noam Chomsky published Syntactic Structures and launched the Chomskyan revolution in linguistics and, well, a bunch of fields, effectively destroying claims such as Whorf's and inaugurating one of the most successful research projects in modern science.
		This is fascinating and ties in with the research of David Gil (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig): see the Economist.
	3quarksdaily.blogs.com /3quarksdaily/2004/08/benjamin_lee_wh.html (598 words)

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	Anthropology 127 Moduel 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The module begins with a case study of some major ways in which the use of language is tied to the speakers' cultural, historical, political, and philosophical experiences.
		Whorf's essay, which closes the Module, provides a theoretical framework for understanding the relationship among language, culture, and thought.
		Whorf, Benjamin L. The relation of habitual thought and behavior to language.
	isc.temple.edu /anth127/SummerCourse/SSSyllabus/ssmodule2.html (188 words)

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		In the simplest terms they believed that all of our thoughts are determined by the language we speak and that language shapes our understanding of the world.
		Using examples and looking at specific passages from Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf their hypothesis will be explained more in-depth.
		(Whorf p.213) He also suggests that it is also the grammar of the particular language that is itself the shaper of ideas.
	www.msu.edu /user/m/a/matousta/web/sapir2.html (1528 words)

	EmptyBottle.org: Linguistic Relativism and Korean
		The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsiously built up on the language habits of the group...We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
		Benjamin Lee Whorf, who was a student of Sapir, went further than the 'predisposition' suggested by his teacher, and proposed that the relationship was a more deterministic one :
		Whorf does not go so far as to say that language structure totally determines the world-view of a speaker here.
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