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" And every language is a vast patternsystem, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only communicates, but also analyzes nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena,... "
Commonsense Constructivism, Or, The Making of World Affairs - Page 33
by Ralph Pettman - 2000 - 248 pages
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Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf

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...
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Wittgenstein and Justice: On the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein for ...

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...
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Issues in Religious Liberty: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution - Church and state - 1985 - 854 pages
...in a language, in English, in Sanskrit, in Chinese. And every language is a vast pattern of systems different from others in which are culturally ordained...personality not only communicates but also analyzes nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena, channels his reasoning, and builds...
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Shakespeare's Romance of the Word, Volume 10

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...
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Perspectives on Language and Thought: Interrelations in Development

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...
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The Influence of Language on Culture and Thought: Essays in Honor of Joshua ...

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...
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In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self

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...
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Crystal and Dragon: The Cosmic Dance of Symmetry and Chaos in Nature, Art ...

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...
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Rethinking Linguistic Relativity

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...
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Contrastive Rhetoric

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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