Whorf Theory Complex : A critical reconstruction.
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Whorf Theory Complex : A critical reconstruction.
Yazar:
Lee, Penny.
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9789027283900
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (343 pages)
Seri:
Studies in the History of the Language Sciences ; v.81
Studies in the History of the Language Sciences
İçerik:
THE WHORF THEORY COMPLEX -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE. 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 - an overview -- 1.5 Elements of the complex summarized -- CHAPTER TWO. LINGUISTIC THINKING: POINTS, PATTERN, LINKAGE, AND RAPPORT -- 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 - cutting through the dichotomies to linguistic thinking -- CHAPTER THREE. THE LOGIC AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY PRINCIPLE -- 3.1 The linguistic relativity principle -- 3.2 Raw experience -- 3.3 Isolates of experience - the nonlinguistic configuration 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 - gestalt theory in the service of linguistics -- 3.9 Overview of the Yale report -- CHAPTER FOUR 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 FIVE. ABSTRACTIVE PROCESSES AND THE QUESTION OFUNIVERSALS -- 5.1 Abstractive processes in cognition -- 5.2 Experiential, conceptual, and linguistic universals -- CHAPTER SIX. METALINGUISTICS: THE INTERCALIBRATION OF AGREEMENT THROUGH LANGUAGE AWARENESS -- 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.
Özet:
At last - 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 '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 '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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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