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Publication details [#10045]

Whorf, Benjamin Lee. 1956. Language, thought, and reality. MIT Press. xi + 278 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and reality | language and thought

Language as a subject

Hopi | Mayan

Annotation

A collection of papers on various topics, the majority of which deals with the central problem of language in relation to thought and reality. The volume includes various papers on linguistic analyses of Maya and Hopi, amongst other languages, and some papers on a more general theoretical level.

Reviewed by

Black, Max. 1959. Linguistic relativity: The views of Benjamin Lee Whorf.

Reprints

Whorf, Benjamin Lee. 1997. The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behaviour to Language. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 443–463.