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The Whorf Theory Complex
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Main description:At last 2; a comprehensive account of the ideas of Benjamin Lee Whorf which not only explains the nature and logic of the linguistic relativity principle but also situates it within a larger 6;theory complex' delineated in fascinating detail. Whorf's almost unknown unpublished writings (as well as his published papers) are drawn on to show how twelve elements of theory interweave in a sophisticated account of relations between language, mind, and experience. The role of language in cognition is revealed as a central concern, some of his insights having interesting affinity wit...
Main description:
At last 2; a comprehensive account of the ideas of Benjamin Lee Whorf which not only explains the nature and logic of the linguistic relativity principle but also situates it within a larger 6;theory complex' delineated in fascinating detail. Whorf's almost unknown unpublished writings (as well as his published papers) are drawn on to show how twelve elements of theory interweave in a sophisticated account of relations between language, mind, and experience. The role of language in cognition is revealed as a central concern, some of his insights having interesting affinity with modern connectionism. Whorf's gestaltic 6;isolates' of experience and meaning, crucial to understanding his reasoning about linguistic relativity, are explained. A little known report written for the Yale anthropology department is used extensively and published for the first time as an appendix. With the Whorf centenary in 1997, this book provides a timely challenge to those who take pleasure in debunking his ideas without bothering to explore their subtlety or even reading them in their original form.
Table of contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview
- 1.1 The Early Work: 1924'1930
- 1.2 1931'1941: The Final Years
- 1.3 Misread, Unread, and Superficially Treated
- 1.4 The Theory Complex
- 1.5 Elements of the Complex Summarized
- Chapter 2. Linguistic Thinking
- 2.1 Patternment
- 2.2 Points in the Pattern
- 2.3 Emergent from a Field of Causes
- 2.4 Linguistic Thinking
- 2.5. Form and Substance, Process and Content
- Chapter 3. The Logic and Development of the Linguistic Relativity Principle
- 3.1 The Linguistic Relativity Principle
- 3.2 Raw Experience
- 3.3 Isolates of Experience
- 3.4 A Canon of Reference, the Same for all Observers
- 3.5 The Biological Segmentation of Reality
- 3.6 Different Essentials from the Same Situation
- 3.7 The Yale Report and Configurative Linguistics
- 3.8 An Analysis of Hopi Stems
- 3.9 Overview of the Yale Report
- Chapter 4. Of Covert Categories, Cryptotypes, and the Internalized Linguistic System
- 4.1 A Whorfian Psycholinguistics
- 4.2 Marking and Grammatical Classes
- 4.3 Terminological Anomalies
- 4.4 Grammatical Meaning and The Problem of Levels in Linguistic Description
- 4.5 The Data of Utterances
- Chapter 5. Abstractive Processes and the Question of Universals
- 5.1 Abstractive Processes in Cognition
- 5.2 Experiential, Conceptual, and Linguistic Universals
- Chapter 6. Metalinguistics
- 6.1 Introductory Comments
- 6.2 Three Kinds of Agreement
- 6.3 Metalinguistics
- 6.4 Language Awareness as an Augmentative Function in Cognition
- 6.5 Different Order Systems, Different Logics, and the Progress of Science
- Appendix: 'The Yale Report'
- References
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
At last 2; a comprehensive account of the ideas of Benjamin Lee Whorf which not only explains the nature and logic of the linguistic relativity principle but also situates it within a larger 6;theory complex' delineated in fascinating detail. Whorf's almost unknown unpublished writings (as well as his published papers) are drawn on to show how twelve elements of theory interweave in a sophisticated account of relations between language, mind, and experience. The role of language in cognition is revealed as a central concern, some of his insights having interesting affinity with modern connectionism. Whorf's gestaltic 6;isolates' of experience and meaning, crucial to understanding his reasoning about linguistic relativity, are explained. A little known report written for the Yale anthropology department is used extensively and published for the first time as an appendix. With the Whorf centenary in 1997, this book provides a timely challenge to those who take pleasure in debunking his ideas without bothering to explore their subtlety or even reading them in their original form.
Table of contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview
- 1.1 The Early Work: 1924'1930
- 1.2 1931'1941: The Final Years
- 1.3 Misread, Unread, and Superficially Treated
- 1.4 The Theory Complex
- 1.5 Elements of the Complex Summarized
- Chapter 2. Linguistic Thinking
- 2.1 Patternment
- 2.2 Points in the Pattern
- 2.3 Emergent from a Field of Causes
- 2.4 Linguistic Thinking
- 2.5. Form and Substance, Process and Content
- Chapter 3. The Logic and Development of the Linguistic Relativity Principle
- 3.1 The Linguistic Relativity Principle
- 3.2 Raw Experience
- 3.3 Isolates of Experience
- 3.4 A Canon of Reference, the Same for all Observers
- 3.5 The Biological Segmentation of Reality
- 3.6 Different Essentials from the Same Situation
- 3.7 The Yale Report and Configurative Linguistics
- 3.8 An Analysis of Hopi Stems
- 3.9 Overview of the Yale Report
- Chapter 4. Of Covert Categories, Cryptotypes, and the Internalized Linguistic System
- 4.1 A Whorfian Psycholinguistics
- 4.2 Marking and Grammatical Classes
- 4.3 Terminological Anomalies
- 4.4 Grammatical Meaning and The Problem of Levels in Linguistic Description
- 4.5 The Data of Utterances
- Chapter 5. Abstractive Processes and the Question of Universals
- 5.1 Abstractive Processes in Cognition
- 5.2 Experiential, Conceptual, and Linguistic Universals
- Chapter 6. Metalinguistics
- 6.1 Introductory Comments
- 6.2 Three Kinds of Agreement
- 6.3 Metalinguistics
- 6.4 Language Awareness as an Augmentative Function in Cognition
- 6.5 Different Order Systems, Different Logics, and the Progress of Science
- Appendix: 'The Yale Report'
- References
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects