James W. Underhill is a Professor at Rouen University, France. He has worked as a professional translator of both French and Czech and has published articles on poetics, metaphor and translation. He is the author of Creating Worldviews: Ideology, Metaphor and Language (Edinburgh University Press, 2011) and Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts: Truth, Love, Hate and War (Cambridge University Press, 2012). The Rouen Ethnolinguistics Project (REP) was founded by James W. Underhill in the framework of the ERIAC RESEARCH GROUP at the University of Rouen, in Northern France. REP aims to further investigations into the philosophy of language and explorations of worldviews. You can find out more about the project here: Rouen Ethnolinguistics Project

A thoughtful and helpful contribution on an important topic.

• Part I: Language and World; 1, The Word is a World (La parole est un monde); 2, What do we have in mind when we talk about language?; 3, What do we see in the term Worldview?; 4, Boas; 5, Sapir; 6, Whorf; Part II: Humboldt, Man and Language; 7, Worldview (Weltanschauung or Weltansicht); 8, Sprache; 9, The Work of the Mind; 10, Form; 11, Creativity, Culture and Character; 12, Catching the Character; 13, A Seeing and Feeling Worldview; 14, Four Dangers in the Comparative Approach; 15, Reformulating the Worldview Hypothesis; 16, A Final Word

James W. Underhill is a Professor at Rouen University, France. He has worked as a professional translator of both French and Czech and has published articles on poetics, metaphor and translation. He is the author of Creating Worldviews: Ideology, Metaphor and Language (Edinburgh University Press, 2011) and Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts: Truth, Love, Hate and War (Cambridge University Press, 2012). The Rouen Ethnolinguistics Project (REP) was founded by James W. Underhill in the framework of the ERIAC RESEARCH GROUP at the University of Rouen, in Northern France. REP aims to further investigations into the philosophy of language and explorations of worldviews. You can find out more about the project here: Rouen Ethnolinguistics Project

A thoughtful and helpful contribution on an important topic.

• Part I: Language and World; 1, The Word is a World (La parole est un monde); 2, What do we have in mind when we talk about language?; 3, What do we see in the term Worldview?; 4, Boas; 5, Sapir; 6, Whorf; Part II: Humboldt, Man and Language; 7, Worldview (Weltanschauung or Weltansicht); 8, Sprache; 9, The Work of the Mind; 10, Form; 11, Creativity, Culture and Character; 12, Catching the Character; 13, A Seeing and Feeling Worldview; 14, Four Dangers in the Comparative Approach; 15, Reformulating the Worldview Hypothesis; 16, A Final Word

James W. Underhill is a Professor at Rouen University, France. He has worked as a professional translator of both French and Czech and has published articles on poetics, metaphor and translation. He is the author of Creating Worldviews: Ideology, Metaphor and Language (Edinburgh University Press, 2011) and Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts: Truth, Love, Hate and War (Cambridge University Press, 2012). The Rouen Ethnolinguistics Project (REP) was founded by James W. Underhill in the framework of the ERIAC RESEARCH GROUP at the University of Rouen, in Northern France. REP aims to further investigations into the philosophy of language and explorations of worldviews. You can find out more about the project here: Rouen Ethnolinguistics Project

A thoughtful and helpful contribution on an important topic.

• Part I: Language and World; 1, The Word is a World (La parole est un monde); 2, What do we have in mind when we talk about language?; 3, What do we see in the term Worldview?; 4, Boas; 5, Sapir; 6, Whorf; Part II: Humboldt, Man and Language; 7, Worldview (Weltanschauung or Weltansicht); 8, Sprache; 9, The Work of the Mind; 10, Form; 11, Creativity, Culture and Character; 12, Catching the Character; 13, A Seeing and Feeling Worldview; 14, Four Dangers in the Comparative Approach; 15, Reformulating the Worldview Hypothesis; 16, A Final Word