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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Benjamin_Lee_WhorfBenjamin Lee Whorf - Wikipedia

    After Whorf's premature death from cancer in 1941, his colleagues curated his manuscripts and promoted his ideas regarding language, culture, and cognition. However, in the 1960s, his views fell out of favor due to criticisms claiming his ideas were untestable and poorly formulated.

  2. www.britannica.com › biography › Benjamin-Lee-WhorfBenjamin Lee Whorf | Theory of Language, Whorf Hypothesis ...

    Sep 5, 2024 · Benjamin Lee Whorf (born April 24, 1897, Winthrop, Mass., U.S.—died July 26, 1941, Wethersfield, Conn.) was a U.S. linguist noted for his hypotheses regarding the relation of language to thinking and cognition and for his studies of Hebrew and Hebrew ideas, of Mayan languages and dialects, and of Uto-Aztecan languages, including Nahuatl ...

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  3. www.newworldencyclopedia.org › entry › Benjamin_WhorfBenjamin Whorf - New World Encyclopedia

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    Some of Whorf's early work on linguistic theory was inspired by the reports he wrote on insurance losses, where misunderstanding resulted from differing perceptionsof a situation. In one famous incident, an employee who was not a native speaker of English had placed drums of liquid near a heater, believing that since a "flammable" liquid would burn...

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    The majority of Benjamin Whorf's work was published posthumously. His widely known collection of work entitled Language, Thought and Realitydid not surface until 1956, when it was published by MIT Press. Manuscripts that Whorf left behind continue to be published. Benjamin Whorf's contribution to the field of ethnolinguistics, despite the fact that...

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    Carroll, John B. 1964. Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. ISBN 0262730065
    Whorf, Benjamin Lee. 1933. The Phonetic Value of Certain Characters in Maya Writing. Periodicals Service Co. ISBN 0527012297
    Whorf, Benjamin Lee. 1943. Loan-words in Ancient Mexico. New Orleans: Tulane University of Louisiana.
    Whorf, Benjamin Lee. 1970 (original 1942). Maya Hieroglyphs: An Extract from the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1941. Seattle: Shorey Book Store.

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  5. ling.yale.edu › history › peopleBenjamin Lee Whorf - Yale Linguistics

    Benjamin Lee Whorf (April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist. Whorf is widely known for his ideas about linguistic relativity, the hypothesis that language influences thought.

  6. www.wikiwand.com › en › Benjamin_Lee_WhorfBenjamin Lee Whorf - Wikiwand

    Benjamin Lee Whorf ( / hwɔːrf /; April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer best known for proposing the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. He believed that the structures of different languages shape how their speakers perceive and conceptualize the world.

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