 | Rudolf Arnheim - 1966 - 386 pàgines
...echoes this view by speaking of the "rhapsody of perception" (4, p. 27). Whorf, in turn, tells us that "the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of...minds — and this means largely by the linguistic system in our minds" (21, p. 213). The world of sight appears as a colorful nightmare, truly the invention... | |
 | Harold Robert Isaacs - 1989 - 260 pàgines
...trade . . . We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language . . . the world is present in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to...minds — and this means largely by the linguistic system in our minds. We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do... | |
 | Roger Brown, Frank S. Kessel - 1988 - 440 pàgines
...phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds" (pp. 2l2-2l3). Such a view was mirrored in the kinds of categories used in concept identification research... | |
 | Joshua A. Fishman - 1991 - 306 pàgines
...categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare us in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented...impressions which has to be organized by our minds. We cut nature up ... as we do, largely because [of] ... an agreement that holds throughout our speech... | |
 | Philip M. Weinstein - 1992 - 210 pàgines
...there intervenes discourse, and that discourse inflects both self and world. Benjamin Lee Whorf writes: We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native...kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized in our minds - and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds. We cut nature up, organize... | |
 | Paul Avtar Singh Ghuman - 1993 - 184 pàgines
...native language. 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...impressions which has to be organized by our minds. We cut nature up, organize into concepts, and ascribe significance as we do largely because we are... | |
 | Martin Hollis - 1994 - 284 pàgines
...habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (Sapir, 1929, p. 209, his italics) We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native...kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organised by our minds - and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds. (Whorf, 1954,... | |
 | Marcello Pera - 1994 - 272 pàgines
...language that we use." This is also known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. See Whorf (1954), p- 213: "the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organi2ed by our minds — and this means largely by the linguistic system in our minds." Sapir (1929),... | |
 | Robin Melrose - 1996 - 192 pàgines
...not merely a reproducing instrument for voicing ideas but rather is itself the shaper of ideas |...]. We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native...our minds - and this means largely by the linguistic system in our minds. From this Whorf deduces (1956:214l 'a new principle of relativity, which holds... | |
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The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds... 
