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Benjamin Lee Whorf

Born

in Massachusetts, The United States

April 24, 1897

Died

July 26, 1941

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Bejamin Lee Whorf was an inspector for a fire insurance company who studied and wrote about language with his teacher, a Yale professor named Edward Sapir. Together they proposed what Whorf called the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis, commonly known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

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	Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf by Benjamin Lee Whorf, John B. Carroll (Editor) 3.96 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 1956 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Phonetic Value of Certain Characters in Maya Writing 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.”
― Benjamin Lee Whorf

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“Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only communicates, but also analyzes nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena, channels his reasoning, and builds the house of his consciousness.”
― Benjamin Lee Whorf

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“We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way—an agreement that holds throughout our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.”
― Benjamin Lee Whorf

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