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Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
by Benjamin Lee Whorf

Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
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Author: Benjamin Lee Whorf
Editor: John B. Carroll
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1964-03-15
ISBN: 0262730065
Number of pages: 290
Publisher: The MIT Press

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Book Review: Hmm...rather difficult
Summary: 2 Stars

I approached this book with enthusiasm, hoping to learn something valid about Hopi language and culture, and how this bore on the relationship between language and perception. Alas, this book has many intriguing insights but you have to penetrate deeply into a mass of highly specialised and (irrelevant?) detail in order to reach them.

I suppose it is Whorf's evident passion for the subject which leads him to write in such a way that one feels he never has the time to set down all of his findings. Consequently what could be a very interesting book leaves the non-specialist a bit bewildered, if slightly the better off for having read it.

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