 | Benjamin Lee Whorf - 1952 - 64 pàgines
...ascribe_significanc<-.s as wc~do. largely because we are ^ parties to ah ngi-wmpnt to "re*"1'"' '* in thi,1 ""y — an agreement that holds throughout our speech community...agreement is, 'of course, an implicit and unstated one. ACT .>. i*rm,_nj-f phmniuirijf "Hjgginrjf: WP p^nnnt tjilk at all except by subscribing to the organization... | |
 | Harold Robert Isaacs - 1989 - 260 pàgines
...up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do largely because we are parties to an agreement that holds throughout our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.5 Taken as a chicken-and-egg or cart-and-horse issue, the SapirWhorf view of the governing... | |
 | P. N. Johnson-Laird, P. C. Wason - 1977 - 636 pàgines
...native languages. The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find because they stare every observer in the face; on...community and is codified in the patterns of our language. Whorf worked as an insurance inspector, but in his spare time he made a study of American Indian languages.... | |
 | Jeffrey K. Zeig, Stephen R. Lankton - 1988 - 566 pàgines
...and remains relatively stable. In short, language both creates and maintains subjective coherency. We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native...community and is codified in the patterns of our language. (Whorf, 1956, p. 213) Language, then, is essentially expressive of an individual's subjective world.... | |
 | Hadley Cantril, Albert Hadley Cantril - 274 pàgines
...observer in the face; on the contrary. the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impression which has to be organized by our minds — and this...community and is codified in the patterns of our language. [i940: 42] Our own awareness of what goes on in our minds as our assumptions are triggered into operation... | |
 | Valerie D. Greenberg - 1990 - 252 pàgines
...Bazerman, Shaping Written Knowledge: The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe...community and is codified in the patterns of our language. . . . This fact is very significant for modern science, for it means that no individual is free to... | |
 | Seong Chee Tham - 1990 - 188 pàgines
...concepts and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organise it in this way — an agreement that holds throughout...speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.53 Thus, thought is relative, varying from language to language. In this way, Whorf put forward... | |
 | Joshua A. Fishman - 1991 - 306 pàgines
...order out of it is awesome. Language is a primary means of simplifying and categorizing experience. The world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of...community and is codified in the patterns of our language. (Whorf 1956: 213) The linguistic ordering of experience serves interpersonal functions, that of communication... | |
 | John A. Lucy - 1992 - 350 pàgines
...there are cases in which he seemed to hint at an influence on perception itself, as in the following: The categories and types that we isolate from the...community and is codified in the patterns of our language. (1956a, p. 213) Although Whorf may have been referring here to the perceptual level by the phrase "cut... | |
 | Ken Wilber - 1993 - 396 pàgines
...agreement to do so, not because nature itself is segmented in exactly that way for all to see. . . . We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native...speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.40 Thus, with our linguistic processes we slice up reality, unconsciously introducing dualisms... | |
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We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way — an agreement that holds throughout our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our... 
