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Language, Thought, and Reality

Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf

by Benjamin Lee Whorf · 1956 · 290 pages

Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram
Recommended by 1 elite

Recommended by 1 Elite

Stephen Wolfram

About This Book

A collection of seminal essays exploring the relationship between language, thought, and perception. It introduces the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the grammatical and semantic structure of a language shapes the speaker's worldview and cognitive processes.

Genres

Psychology & BehaviorPhilosophyScience & Technology

Topics

AnthropologyCognitive ScienceCommunicationLinguistic RelativityLinguisticsPerceptionSapir Whorf Hypothesis

Book Details

Published

1956

Pages

290

Language

en

ISBN

9781614270720

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