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• line 59: Subject: Conference: Humboldt and Whorf revisited
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• line 188: Call for papers for a neo-Whorfian symposium HUMBOLDT AND WHORF
• line 193: interpretation of Humboldt's and Whorf's ideas on linguistic
• line 196: Whorf are also highly welcome, the focus will be on new research

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• line 181: homage to Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941)

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• line 59: Subject: Conference: Humboldt and Whorf revisited
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• line 544: HUMBOLDT AND WHORF REVISTED:
• line 549: Humboldt's and Whorf's ideas on linguistic relativity in the light of
• line 551: the writings by Humboldt and Whorf are also highly welcome, the focus

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• line 91: I'm still confused about something. Given the tough time Whorf has had for

• line 226: The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of course, and all its various
• line 263: WHORF HYPOTHESIS MYTH that assumes that Whorf, possibly in
• line 266: determinism. Whorf did write a "principle of linguistic
• line 283: own names associated with their creations and blamed Whorf for

• line 121: Whorf 1956 (pp. 140-2) claims that Hopi makes no grammatical
• line 138: systems as well. This is not quite the situation that Whorf describes
• line 156: Whorf, Benjamin. 1956. _Language, Thought, and Reality_. MIT Press.

• line 143: Whorf).

• line 115: to, need I say it, Sapir, Whorf, and Bloomfield. I read some years

• line 171: Cognitive Linguistic Relativity: On the Centenary of Benjamin Whorf's

• line 79: &gt;According to BL Whorf (`The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior
• line 88: &gt;domain of time. Whorf (1939) wrote "The absence of such metaphor from
• line 95: &gt;utterance. Whorf talks about Hopi "verb categories," and "modes,"

• line 61: of Phonetics: A state-of-the-art account, and 10, The 'Sapir-Whorf

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• line 53: Subject: Call for papers: Whorf centenary
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• line 126: centenary of the birth of Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941).
• line 129: North America and beyond, would welcome papers on Whorf to mark this
• line 135: dedicated to Whorf. These and other papers might also appear in a
• line 136: separate book of studies on Whorf to be published subsequently.

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• line 306: Whorf. The semiotic approach to the Linguistic Relativity Principle

• line 129: originates with Whorf's claim that clouds are thought of as animate,
• line 134: reasons identified by Greenberg in his classic paper on Whorf's
• line 139: standards, many of Whorf's analyses of Hopi (he also had similar
• line 142: the case that, because a lot of people only know of Whorf through
• line 143: secondary or tertiary accounts of this so-called Whorf thesis,

• line 274: fond equally mystical." (Whorf, p59). Since quantum physicist David
• line 276: Whorf's description of the linguistic system behind Hopi metaphysics

• line 130: I believe that Whorf argued somewhere that in English the word _baby_

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• line 43: Subject: Sum: Reading after Whorf's original
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• line 54: further reading after Whorf's "Language, Mind and Reality" . I
• line 79: Dan Moonhawk Alford's essays on Whorf that he posted to the List last
• line 89: Benjamin Whorf seriously -- provide an informal validation of the
• line 95: first voiced by Whorf.
• line 97: Alford, Dan Moonhawk. "The Demise of Whorf Hypothesis. Proceedings
• line 101: Alford, Dan Moonhawk, "Is Whorf's Relativity Einstein's Relativity?",
• line 177: Kay, Paul and Willett Kempton. "What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?",
• line 214: Lee, Penny "The Whorf theory complex: A critical reconstruction", John
• line 235: M. Urban and Four Articles on Metalinguistics, by Benjamin Lee Whorf."
• line 248: Lucy, J. A. and Richard A. Shweder. "Whorf and His Critics:
• line 317: Whorf, Benjamin Lee. Language, Mind and Reality: selected writings of
• line 318: Benjamin Lee Whorf. Ed. J. B. Carroll. New York: MIT Press, 1956.

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• line 354: (oops, Whorf) taught us so long ago (I do NOT mean that bowdlerized
• line 355: monstrosity called the 'Sapir-Whorf hypothesis', which appears to have
• line 357: less-than-worthy heirs, I mean the real work of Sapir and Whorf),
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• line 59: Subject: Sapir-Whorf/Consciousness
• line 69: Subject: Reading sugggestion after Whorf's original
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• line 146: Is there anyone on the list who is very familiar with the Sapir-Whorf
• line 187: Subject: Reading sugggestion after Whorf's original
• line 191: I wonder what books you can recommend beyond Whorf's "Language,
• line 192: thought and reality" for someone who is interested in the Sapir-Whorf

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• line 217: &gt;languages, even tho Whorf didn't know it) are based on aspect and

• line 110: Whorf, Pike, Lamb: they have been treated badly. I am this generation's
• line 141: languages, and then Whorf reestablished it in linguistics for human
• line 147: critic-inspired imaginality which critics named the 'Whorf Hypothesis'.

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• line 49: Subject: Whorf and relativism
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• line 82: remember some very scanty reading I had done by and about Whorf, wherein he
• line 90: I do not know Hopi, and so I don't even know if Whorf had his facts right
• line 104: those who would excoriate Whorf for stating facts, who glorify the kids'

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• line 202: history of English, Genie, child language, Sapir-Whorf, and so on. But it

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• line 52: with Whorf unless you are simultaneously conversant with linguistics,
• line 56: Demise of the Whorf Hypothesis" (Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1978?),
• line 57: what Whorf said has little or generally no relation whatever to the
• line 58: entire body of discussion that comes under the name "(Sapir-)Whorf
• line 63: Simple test: Read the LF chapter and then ask, "Who created the Whorf
• line 64: Hypothesis?" And a quick way to answer this is: What did Whorf himself
• line 67: reading of Whorf never finds the word "hypothesis" at all. So -- right
• line 69: turned Whorf's 'principle' into a(n) 'hypothesis', and why? It wasn't
• line 70: Whorf, because his designation was clear. So what is the difference
• line 76: Next: what does Whorf's "linguistic relativity principle" have to do, if
• line 78: also BLS, 1980?, paper, "Is Whorf's Relativity Einstein's Relativity?").
• line 82: Whorf cobbled together his theory from a few ill-translated snatches of
• line 84: Whorf correctly, which he didn't, about a canoe on a beach pointwise:
• line 85: which Pinker identified as an Apache sentence, but which Whorf knew quite
• line 87: beachless desert), Whorf was upping the ante on Einstein, who argued that
• line 92: what Whorf said too (see Heisenberg's Lament below), except he moved its
• line 94: named "principle of linguistic relativity" as Whorf himself named it.
• line 112: Side note: for one who reads Whorf closely, he makes five or ten times
• line 117: So right from the get-go we see that 1) Whorf didn't write and wouldn't
• line 119: being some deranged crackpot, he was merely literate: Whorf was one of
• line 121: this century; 3) Whorf's relativity principle had something important to
• line 122: do with Einstein's; and 4) Whorf was a universalist as well as a
• line 127: Whorf's mild version of linguistic relativity (let's leave ling.
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• line 66: SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS
• line 69: the current status of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I am once again faced with
• line 73: always stated that no one has disproved Whorf's mild version of ling.
• line 76: that Whorf was clearly wrong on all counts (and how could he have been so

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• line 80: evidence. If so-goes-the-language, so-goes-the-culture (a la Whorf), what can

• line 71: evidence. If so-goes-the-language, so-goes-the-culture (a la Whorf), what can

• line 184: If in fact the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis DOES apply to pronouns, then I

• line 52: Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Words referring to concepts which have been

• line 73: painters and later linguistic informant to Benjamin Whorf; and Maria

• line 148: Jack Vance. Languages of Pao. (Comparative linguistics, Sapir-Whorf

• line 47: Ther term "metalinguistics" comes from Benjamin Lee Whorf.
• line 51: Whorf defines this branch of science as studying the relations between the
• line 62: opposed to the "internal linguistics" (= Whorf's "microlinguistics"). The

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• line 69: If the Sapir-Whorf "Hypothesis" is an "ideology" rather than a hypothesis,

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• line 57: )Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis represents one view - the so-called relativistic
• line 58: )view. People often talk about "proving" or "disproving" Sapir-Whorf,
• line 60: )One is that Sapir-Whorf is not really a hypothesis at all, but an
• line 65: )Sapir-Whorf.
• line 67: )The other thing is that if you put Sapir-Whorf into a form that makes it
• line 75: )In that form in which it is often articulated, Sapir-Whorf is obvious,
• line 82: )Subject: sapir-whorf
• line 88: )Now, I suspect, along with Branner, that Sapir-Whorf is not really a

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• line 129: )In that form in which it is often articulated, Sapir-Whorf is obvious,
• line 139: suspect, along with Branner, that Sapir-Whorf is not really a hypothesis,

• line 128: usually pluralizes only animate nouns, so Whorf claimed that

• line 80: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis represents one view - the so-called relativistic
• line 81: view. People often talk about "proving" or "disproving" Sapir-Whorf,
• line 83: One is that Sapir-Whorf is not really a hypothesis at all, but an
• line 87: are involved that there is such heated dispute about Sapir-Whorf.
• line 89: The other thing is that if you put Sapir-Whorf into a form that makes it
• line 97: In that form in which it is often articulated, Sapir-Whorf is obvious,
• line 103: Whorf himself insisted that he was not just talking about word-counting,
• line 129: Benjamin Lee Whorf_, (New York: The Technology Press of Massachusetts

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• line 52: Second, I think that quotations from Boas/Whorf are very helpful and a good
• line 68: that another implication of Sapir/Whorf is that the view that our language

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• line 104: As the quotation from Whorf shows, he was concerned with the issue
• line 110: languages possessed abstract terms. I think that we must view Whorf's

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• line 135: &gt;The point, I thought, coming out of Sapir-Whorf, was simply that SIMPLE
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• line 267: People talk a lot about Whorf, and many like to tear
• line 273: of Benjamin Lee Whorf._ Cambridge: MIT Press., p. 216.
• line 343: me for a serious view about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. What do I know

• line 117: Whorf took one step, in transforming Einstein's relativity principle
• line 144: Whorf, who was attempting to tell them that the very definition of
• line 169: metaphors onto people using systems thinking (e.g., Sapir, Whorf,

• line 52: The point, I thought, coming out of Sapir-Whorf, was simply that SIMPLE

• line 56: so-called Whorf hypothesis (if I look at some of the e-mail I received) shows

• line 72: Whorf hypothesis. I just read an article in _Foreign Language
• line 80: I was under the impression that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is
• line 86: refutations of Sapir-Whorf, something one could send students,

• line 136: linguists, Franz Boas and Benjamin Lee Whorf). Unfortunately, their
• line 147: distinction in usage do much of the same work (for Whorf and Sapir

• line 302: Lee Whorf). Unfortunately, their point has been pretty much missed by

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• line 65: anthro student compile a bibliography of works on the Sapir-Whorf

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• line 115: (Whorf's Hopi example unfortunately excludes birds.) I am also

• line 99: into linguistics students against Sapir-Whorf straw men, a disdain
• line 119: where the student learns the position against a misrepresented Sapir-Whorf.

• line 50: The discussion of Whorf and the hypothesis that linguistic categories
• line 55: that Whorf developed this particular thread of his thinking specifically
• line 68: Whorf wasn't *really* a linguist, we say (someone here recently said), he

• line 55: Whorf and Physics.

• line 121: into linguistics students against Sapir-Whorf straw men, a disdain
• line 141: where the student learns the position against a misrepresented Sapir-Whorf.

• line 49: A few remarks re Dan Alford's comments on Pinker on Whorf:
• line 51: (1) Thre is a difference between linguist bashing and Whorf bashing.
• line 52: As I recall, Geoff Pullum pulled the same trick of describing Whorf
• line 57: Whorf, is explicitly based on TODAY's usage, which is heavily
• line 66: Sapir or Whorf came up with the Sapir-Worf hypothesis,
• line 70: was widely accepted at the time. Thus what Whorf is
• line 84: My girlfriend forwarded the critique by Moonhawk of Pinker's critique of Whorf.
• line 85: I have only slight familiarity with either Pinker or Whorf, but I am a
• line 95: I think I like Whorf's ideas, insofar as I understand them. But in fairness
• line 98: &gt;Pinker, like most Whorf critics, doesn't understand that Whorf
• line 105: quite complicated. Whorf may well have a different perspective that is

• line 47: bashing*! Consider the so-called Whorf chapter where Pinker takes on
• line 48: his (supposedly) greatest enemy, Benjamin Whorf. Of course since, as
• line 49: we shall see, since Pinker doesn't really consider Whorf a linguist, he
• line 52: Predictably, as I pointed out 16 years ago in The Demise of the Whorf
• line 55: Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic determinism" (how DOES a principle
• line 61: rather than Whorf's actual principle of linguistic relativity, to professional
• line 65: absurdity..." In context, this is put forth as Sapir or Whorf's belief or
• line 67: no quotes from Whorf, Sapir, or anyone else showing that ANYONE has ever
• line 88: Whorf." Who is the deleted agent here? My research indicates that the agent
• line 91: Whorf did formulate a PRINCIPLE of linguistic relativity (LTR pp. 215, 221),
• line 92: neither he nor Sapir ever formulated the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis they are
• line 94: when even Whorf and Whorfians agree that linguistic determinism is
• line 95: wrong? Pinker, like most Whorf critics, doesn't understand that Whorf
• line 101: linguist, Whorf is "an inspector for the Hartford Fire Insurance Company
• line 104: you examine Whorf's arguments, the less sense they make" (followed by an
• line 105: analysis of Whorf's "empty gasoline drums" example which invents facts
• line 106: and includes information which Whorf -- the only writer of this incident
• line 108: cigarette into an empty drum; Whorf only talked about behavior in general
• line 110: find the most virulent attack of all: "No one is really sure how Whorf came
• line 114: read him. Of course, Whorf points out, our own notions of flowing time and
• line 158: phenomenon." Excuse me, but wasn't that Whorf's point -- that such terms
• line 162: adopt Whorf's exact position and then call Whorf wrong? And therefore,
• line 165: Critics ignore the numerous universalist statements by Whorf (as an
• line 171: about the ideas of Benjamin Whorf as long as you make sure to muddy the
• line 174: and close the door! We'll see if we can do better than that for the Whorf

• line 230: "why". (So Whorf is alive and well; nothing new there.) Moreover,

• line 84: external world are discussed in detail in pp. 78-82 (Whorf chapter),

• line 101: Whorf, the Prague School, Chomsky &amp; gen. grammar,
• line 209: are on 19th century; Saussure; Bloomfield and followers; Sapir-Whorf

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• line 64: ago of Benjamin Whorf, who suggested that the subatomic problem
• line 136: Foundations (1987) and Whorf and Sapir and others also discussed the issue.

• line 202: led to useful results; Whorf's analogous principle of linguistic
• line 214: developments of 20th-century scientific thinking, Whorf and
• line 231: meaning" (Whorf), or towards its only scientific alternative,

• line 67: them? (Somebody reread Whorf's stuff of Hopi space-time and research

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• line 102: Looking for linguists and others not seduced by the bogus Whorf
• line 104: actually read Whorf in the original, found something interesting
• line 124: international and multidisciplinary reassessment of Whorf on

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• line 336: Whorf, Benjamin. 1956. Language, thought, and reality: selected writings.

• line 164: Bloomfield, Whorf, and Hockett**

• line 47: Whorf in the 1930's to come from Proto-UA *t before the vowel a.

• line 69: Whorf, Benjamin L. (60-120)

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• line 23: time, and motion. He wants to do something on Whorf's work on Hopi
• line 25: either Whorf's work in this area or other material concerning tense

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• line 111: the "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis," concentrating on the ways in which
• line 136: Boas, Sapir &amp; Whorf revisited. Ed. M. Mathiot. 1979. The Hauge:

• line 56: A colleague suggested the question is asking for a Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis

• line 78: Subject: Query: Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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• line 236: succinct (2-3 pp.) statement and critique of the Sapir-Whorf

• line 60: called Sapir-Whorf hypothesis a few years ago that did something

• line 280: appeal for that audience of the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis. Ex hypotheosi,
• line 283: "Standard Average European" (Whorf's term) to achieve. And vice versa,

• line 95: rely on some variant or other of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic

• line 100: the Sapir-Whorf theories? E-prime, as I understand it, eliminates the

• line 84: well enough described (e.g. Whorf). And culture-specificity is not restricted

• line 147: Delany's incredible novel _Babel-17_, which takes the Sapir-Whorf

• line 275: Delany's incredible novel _Babel-17_, which takes the Sapir-Whorf

• line 105: Malinowski, Sapir Whorf. A stiff diet for awhole course

• line 107: linguistics research, including but not limited to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis,

• line 161: of some of Whorf's writings has also been a big help.
• line 174: Whorf's ideas on the differences between languages,

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• line 44: Subject: Whorf-Sapir ms excerpt 2
• line 53: to insist on attributing to Whorf and Sapir views they did not hold
• line 62: indicate the direction of causality (as indeed Whorf himself noted
• line 100: Subject: Whorf
• line 103: I would provide some evidence for my recent assertions that Whorf's
• line 107: Whorf says among other things"
• line 126: Thus, I believe that Whorf made a clear distinction between culture
• line 160: seems not to have been entirely clear to Whorf, and that,
• line 172: As to culture, Whorf was faithfully following Sapir in claiming
• line 181: Incidentally, much of what I have said about Whorf's intent in
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• line 206: back-burner work-in-progress ms relating to the Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis
• line 318: what is idiosyncratic and therefore pertinent to the Whorf-Sapir

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• line 47: Whorf's Collected Essays, essays by Sapir and Bloomfield, G. Pullam's book, The
• line 53: included Whorf, and indeed reading Whorf in my own undergraduatge career got me
• line 62: Subject: Whorf and color
• line 67: tangled cluster of hypotheses referred to as the Sapir-Whorf
• line 70: non-trivial extent? (P. Kay &amp; W. Kempton, "What is the Sapir-Whorf
• line 127: (Paul Attewell) who had read Whorf but not the later refutations.

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• line 44: Subject: neuroscience and Sapir-Whorf
• line 52: I wrote yesterday re the Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis:
• line 75: Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis. Construe this as continuing from the end of my
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• line 42: I want to outline the views of Sapir and of Whorf on linguistic and
• line 108: Whorf may have been a Theosophist. His philosophical interests
• line 126: Whorf developed his ideas about linguistic relativity during Sapir's
• line 128: to comment. Whorf died in 1941 at the age of forty-four, leaving less
• line 133: Whorf went farther, and developed the claim that
• line 237: absolutely irrelevant to the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis, though the latter
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• line 70: interested Whorf, but as Laughlin noted it is the field from which many had
• line 80: THE DISCUSSION ON WHORF AND LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY SHOWS AGAIN HOW
• line 82: THE DIFFICULTY OF DOING SO FOR THE SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS SUGGESTS THAT
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• line 111: Whorf and linguistic relativity. Perhaps my personal recollections will
• line 114: some of Whorf's own writings. I first encountered Whorf in an intro social
• line 118: Whorf and some papers by Lenneberg, Greenberg, Vygotsky, Roger Brown
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• line 170: the so-called Sapir-Whorf hypothesis was NOT what Whorf (or
• line 173: Kay ones, that seem in fact to support the Un-Sapir-Whorf
• line 185: Whorf, Whorf (like most of his contemporaries) PRESUPPOSED the
• line 207: us as well. Whorf, like almost all his contemporaries, was

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• line 86: An earlier posting asked if there was any connection between Whorf and
• line 88: it is worth noting that Sapir, who offered Whorf some guidance was very
• line 106: Subject: Berlin &amp; Kay vs Whorf
• line 111: what Whorf did not maintain, but rather what was imputed to Whorf.
• line 115: inaccurate data that it used (but then again Whorf has been shown
• line 126: Lucy, John and Richard Shweder. 1979. Whorf and his critics:
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• line 153: Thankyou Niko Besnier for the posting re Whorf! I can't agree more.
• line 155: Whorf hit the little screen, and hoping that when he did we would not
• line 160: But I don't remember reading quite this version in Whorf myself :&gt;
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• line 219: A more recent reference on Whorf and color terms is a paper by
• line 220: Paul Kay and Willet Kempton called "What is the Sapir Whorf hypothesis?"

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• line 63: Subject: Whorf again
• line 66: Re.: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and "popular" beliefs, cf. most
• line 70: version of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (SWH) is not that they know
• line 88: of poor Whorf, who must be on the most misread (unread?) thinkers
• line 89: of the century. Interpretations of Whorf extant amongst mainstream
• line 90: linguists have little to do with what Whorf actually wrote, and
• line 94: never required to read a single original text by Whorf. To a
• line 95: certain extent this is understandable, since Whorf wrote in an
• line 98: John Lucy ("Whorf's view of the linguistic mediation of thought,"
• line 102: by those who have not read Whorf) is that Whorf is not talking
• line 107: Whorf calls *overt* and *covert* categories. Areas of language
• line 109: determinism was never advocated by Whorf, but by subsequent
• line 110: linguists who never seem to have read Whorf) are in fact very
• line 111: different from areas that Whorf is usually said to have claimed to
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• line 136: Re: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
• line 139: research relative to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis -- that done by

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• line 116: &gt;Subject: Whorf and linguistic relativism
• line 137: Sapir-Whorf is generally understood to have strong and weak versions,
• line 151: Sapir-Whorf to some extent, especially where the researcher is in the
• line 166: testing the 'Sapir-Whorf hypothesis'. Those of us working on the

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• line 63: ponsible for perpetrating the idea that Whorf believed that the language
• line 65: in the 50s on the Whorf hypothesis (I can dig up the reference if necessary),
• line 68: thought was Whorf, that they had best read the original. Hoijer
• line 70: of Whorf's ideas that Manaster-Ramer derides. (No, I wan't at that confer-
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• line 86: In several recent messages there are references to Whorf or Sapir
• line 87: and Whorf together as having originated the idea of "human thinking
• line 90: words for snow, this story about Whorf and Sapir is not factually
• line 98: as subjects and objects). Second, it is true that Whorf took
• line 102: it does reveal it). We know for example that Whorf was much
• line 106: all of Whorf's claim about Hopi are quite explicitly of this
• line 111: because Whorf is often accused of claiming such a connection without
• line 120: all this is that the relevant writings of Whorf's are all reprinted
• line 125: canard about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I believe that Clyde Kluckhohn
• line 145: comparison is surely with Chomsky, not Whorf.

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• line 72: linguistics (to wit: the "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis"). For example, at the
• line 77: Relativitaetsprinzip?: Untersuchungen zur Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese_, Fischer
• line 87: himself pointed out that the so-called "Sapir-Whorf" hypothesis could also
• line 89: that Whorf read either Wilhelm von Humboldt nor Leo Weisgerber]. Thus we

• line 147: suspends disbelief about the usual reductions of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and

• line 93: Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, are collecting grammars from different
• line 168: is the language makes the culture (sort of sub-Sapir-Whorf

• line 91: Whorf orbiting the gaseous giant Arcturus IV. Your most

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