Benjamin Lee Whorf

(1897–1941) Anthropologist

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Benjamin Lee Whorf was an anthropologist.

Quick Facts About Benjamin Lee Whorf

Born: April 24, 1897
Died: July 26, 1941
Profession: Anthropologist

About Benjamin Lee Whorf

[Wikidata] American linguist (1897–1941)... | [Wikipedia] Benjamin Atwood Lee Whorf 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. Whorf saw this idea, named after him and his ment

Quotes by Benjamin Lee Whorf

We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement…

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Agreement

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Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

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Language

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A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.

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Appreciation

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Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire…

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Defining

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Speech is the best show a man puts on.

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Language

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The world that is coming toward us out of time is going to be very much richer in a mental sense because…

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Enlargement

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The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of…

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Adjectives

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