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Jianxin Ding, Jiaqi Liu, Yi Zhao, Qing Tu - Introducing Benjamin Lee Whorf, Inbunden

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Introducing Benjamin Lee Whorf

Av Jianxin Ding, Jiaqi Liu, Yi Zhao, Qing Tu

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This book provides an accessible introduction to Benjamin Lee Whorf and his contributions to linguistic relativity. It outlines his biography, intellectual development, and theoretical concerns while highlighting the distinctive approach of his work.Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) was an influential figure in twentieth-century linguistic research whose work became central to the development of linguistic relativity (LR). His writings raised enduring questions about the relationships among language, thought, cognition, and culture. From a retrospective perspective, several concerns in Whorf’s work can also be seen as anticipating questions later explored in research on language and cognition. As a major figure associated with linguistic relativity, Whorf provides an important point of departure for examining how linguistic patterns may relate to habitual patterns of thought and cultural interpretation. Covering Whorf’s linguistic connections, the development and theory of linguistic relativity, covert categories, the Yale Report, key concepts, and applications, this book provides a resource for understanding Whorf’s work and its subsequent reception across linguistics and related disciplines.Intended for readers interested in linguistic relativity, language and cognition, and psycholinguistics, the book introduces key concepts—including linguistic relativity, covert categories, and the Yale Report—illustrates their applications, and provides suggestions for further reading.
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Jianxin Ding, PhD, a professor at the School of Foreign Languages and Director of the Language Studies Institute at Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou), China.Jiaqi Liu, PhD, a lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Nanjing Normal University (Nanjing), China.Yi Zhao, PhD, a lecturer at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou), China.Qing Tu, PhD, a lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages, Jishou University (Zhangjiajie), China.

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"This work surpassed my expectations, not only in its breadth and new contributions to understanding Whorf’s influence [...] The authors state in their introduction that they aimed to create ‘a curated reference illuminating intersections across anthropology, psychology, and linguistic philosophy,’ which they most certainly do; however, the book offers substantially more than this already considerable aim, showing how Whorf took an early engineer’s approach to also intersect with sciences such as physics and chemistry."Derek Irwin, Professor, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China"This is a substantial and potentially valuable introduction to Benjamin Lee Whorf. Its strongest feature is its effort to recover the breadth of Whorf’s intellectual project beyond the conventional formulation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, particularly through its discussions of covert categories, cryptotypes, the Yale Report, and the wider conceptual architecture of Whorf’s thought. The manuscript also brings this historical material into productive dialogue with contemporary research on language and cognition."Bo Wang, Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, CanadaYuanyi Ma, Researcher, British Columbia, Canada

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