Author : Benjamin Lee Whorf
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262730068
Writings by the pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf, including his famous work on the Hopi language as well as general reflections on language and meaning.
Author : Benjamin Lee Whorf
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262304929
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.
Author : John B. Carroll
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Language & Languages
ISBN :
"Whorf ... makes two cardinal hypotheses: First, that all higher levels of thinking are dependent on languge. Second, that the structure of the language one habitually uses influences the manner in which one understands his environment. The picture of the universe shifts from tongue to tongue"--Foreword by Stuart Chase.
Author : Michael Devitt
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262540995
What is language? How does it relate to the world? How does it relate to the mind? Should our view of language influence our view of the world? These are among the central issues covered in this spirited and unusually clear introduction to the philosophy of language. Making no pretense of neutrality, Michael Devitt and Kim Sterelny take a definite theoretical stance. Central to that stance is naturalism--that is, they treat a philosophical theory of language as an empirical theory like any other and see people as nothing but complex parts of the physical world. This leads them, controversially, to a deflationary view of the significance of the study of language: they dismiss the idea that the philosophy of language should be preeminent in philosophy. This highly successful textbook has been extensively rewritten for the second edition to reflect recent developments in the field.
Author : Benjamin Lee Whorf
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 1966
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin Lee 1897-1941 Whorf
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781014733092
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Author : Hans-Johann Glock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,49 MB
Release : 2003-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139436732
Quine and Davidson are among the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. Their influence on contemporary philosophy is second to none, and their impact is also strongly felt in disciplines such as linguistics and psychology. This book is devoted to both of them, but also questions some of their basic assumptions. Hans-Johann Glock critically scrutinizes their ideas on ontology, truth, necessity, meaning and interpretation, thought and language, and shows that their attempts to accommodate meaning and thought within a naturalistic framework, either by impugning them as unclear or by extracting them from physical facts, are ultimately unsuccessful. His discussion includes interesting comparisons of Quine and Davidson with other philosophers, particularly Wittgenstein, and also offers detailed accounts of central issues in contemporary analytic philosophy, such as the nature of truth and of meaning and interpretation, and the relation between thought and language.
Author : Benjamin Lee Whorf
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Language and languages
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin Lee Whorf
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,72 MB
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781528247078
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Author : N.J. Enfield
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262368773
A fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind’s greatest invention. Language is said to be humankind’s greatest accomplishment. But what is language actually good for? It performs poorly at representing reality. It is a constant source of distraction, misdirection, and overshadowing. In fact, N. J. Enfield notes, language is far better at persuasion than it is at objectively capturing the facts of experience. Language cannot create or change physical reality, but it can do the next best thing: reframe and invert our view of the world. In Language vs. Reality, Enfield explains why language is bad for scientists (who are bound by reality) but good for lawyers (who want to win their cases), why it can be dangerous when it falls into the wrong hands, and why it deserves our deepest respect. Enfield offers a lively exploration of the science underlying the bugs and features of language. He examines the tenuous relationship between language and reality; details the array of effects language has on our memory, attention, and reasoning; and describes how these varied effects power narratives and storytelling as well as political spin and conspiracy theories. Why should we care what language is good for? Enfield, who has spent twenty years at the cutting edge of language research, argues that understanding how language works is crucial to tackling our most pressing challenges, including human cognitive bias, media spin, the “post-truth” problem, persuasion, the role of words in our thinking, and much more.
