Language, Thought, and Reality (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Benjamin Lee Whorf
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Work: Linguistics
- Genres: Nonfiction, Linguistics
- Subjects: Language or languages, Communication, Writing, Native Americans or American Indians, Reality, Reading, Speech, South America or South Americans
Form and Content
When Benjamin Lee Whorf died in 1941, he left among his papers an outline for a book he proposed to write—along with the title he hoped to give it, “Language, Thought, and Reality.” This book would have been a systemization and clarification of his ideas about the implications of linguistics for thinking about the nature and structure of external reality.
Since the book was never written, the editor John B. Carroll chose the unused title for this volume, a collection of Whorf’s most important papers, which all deal with the subject planned for...
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