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Benjamin Lee Whorf

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Linguistics

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According to Wikipedia, Benjamin Lee Whorf was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer who is famous for proposing the "Sapir–Whorf hypothesis." He believed that the structures of different languages shape how their speakers perceive and conceptualize the world. Whorf saw this idea, named after him and his mentor Edward Sapir, as having implications similar to Einstein's principle of physical relativity. However, the concept originated from 19th-century philosophy and thinkers like Wilhelm von Humboldt and Wilhelm Wundt.

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Benjamin Lee Whorf's Published Works

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An American Indian Model of the Universe (1950) (157)
Some Verbal Categories of Hopi (1938) (45)
The Punctual and Segmentative Aspects of Verbs in Hopi (1936) (40)
THE COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS OF UTO‐AZTECAN (1935) (33)
Culture in crisis : a study of the Hopi Indians (1950) (25)
Four articles on metalinguistics (1950) (21)
THE ORIGIN OF AZTEC TL (1937) (14)
The phonetic value of certain characters in Maya writing (1933) (14)
A CENTRAL MEXICAN INSCRIPTION COMBINING MEXICAN AND MAYA DAY SIGNS (1932) (4)
MEXICO AND SOUTH AMERICA: Die Mexikanische Bilderhandschrift Historia Tolteca‐Chichimeca: die Manuscripte 46–58bis der Nationalbibliothek in Paris. Teil I: Die Bilderschrift nebst Übersetzung. Konrad Theodor Preuss and Ernst Mengin (1938) (2)
NORTH AMERICA: Uto‐Aztecan Languages of Mexico. A. L. Kroeber (1935) (1)
THE REIGN OF HUEMAC (1929) (0)
NOTES ON THE TÜBATULABAL LANGUAGE (1936) (0)

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