| Benjamin Lee Whorf - Language and languages - 1956 - 302 pages
...linguistic family. His thinking itself is in a language— in English, in Sanskrit, in Chinese.1 And every language is a vast pattern-system, different...personality not only communicates, but also analyzes nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena, channels his reasoning, and builds... | |
| Hanna F. Pitkin - Law - 1973 - 400 pages
...Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge (New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, 1964), p. 112. Whorf says "every language is a vast pattern-system, different...personality not only communicates, but also analyzes nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena, channels his reasoning, and builds... | |
| Maurice Hunt - Drama - 1990 - 196 pages
...unconscious. . . . These patterns are the unperceived intricate systematizations of his own Ianguage. . . . Every language is a vast pattern-system, different...personality not only communicates, but also analyzes nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena, channels his reasoning, and builds... | |
| Susan A. Gelman, James P. Byrnes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 546 pages
...unconscious. These patterns are the unperceived intricate systemizations of his own language. . . . And every language is a vast pattern-system, different...personality not only communicates, but also analyzes nature, (p. 252) For example, Whorf (1956, pp. 140-142; cf. Quine, 1960) suggested that there is no... | |
| Joshua A. Fishman - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 306 pages
...linguistic family. His thinking itself is in a language - in English, in Sanskrit, in Chinese. And every language is a vast pattern-system, different...which the personality not only communicates, but also analyses nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena, channels his reasoning, and... | |
| Ruth Padel - Art - 1992 - 240 pages
...the best ones through which to approach these words and the picture of consciousness they enshrine. "Every language is a vast pattern-system, different...which the personality not only communicates, but also analyses nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena."85 Ordained? Maybe not. But... | |
| David Wade - Art - 1993 - 296 pages
...unperceived intricate systemisations of his own language. Every language is a vast pattern-system, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories...which the personality not only communicates, but also analyses nature, channels his reasoning, and builds the house of his consciousness. ' Benjamin Lee... | |
| John J. Gumperz, Stephen C. Levinson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 504 pages
...linguistic family. His thinking itself is in a language - in English, in Sanskrit, in Chinese. And every language is a vast pattern-system, different...personality not only communicates, but also analyzes nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena, channels his reasoning, and builds... | |
| Ulla Connor - Education - 1996 - 224 pages
...the forms and catego28 ries by which the personality not only communicates, but also analyzes nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena,...reasoning, and builds the house of his consciousness. (Carroll, 1956) The Whorfian hypothesis thus asserts that one's native language influences and controls... | |
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