 | Benjamin Lee Whorf - Language and languages - 1950 - 60 pages
...part of a particular grammar and differs, from slightly to greatly, as between different grammars. We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native...flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds — and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds/We cut nature up, organize... | |
 | Benjamin Lee Whorf - Language and languages - 1952 - 64 pages
...part of a particular grammar and differs, from slightly to greatly, as between different grammars. We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native...flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds — and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds. We cut nature up, organize... | |
 | Benjamin Lee Whorf - Language and languages - 1956 - 302 pages
...grammar, and differs, from slightly to SCIENCE AND LINGUISTICS greatly, between different grammars. We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native...face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a Figure 11. Contrast between a "temporal" language (English) and a "timeless" language (Hopi). What... | |
 | Rudolf Arnheim - Art - 1966 - 386 pages
...echoes this view by speaking of the "rhapsody of perception" (4, p. 27). Whorf, in turn, tells us that "the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds — and this means largely by the linguistic system in our minds" (21, p. 213). The world of... | |
 | Alan D. Baddeley - Psychology - 1999 - 374 pages
...language actually determines that view: We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. The categories and types that we isolate from the...kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized in our minds — and this means largely by the linguistic system in our minds (Whorf, 1956, p. 213).... | |
 | Paul Humphreys, John Raymond Smythies - A-level examinations - 1999 - 162 pages
...through use of language, with knowledge of the linguistic process by which agreement is attained, . . . The categories and types that we isolate from the...kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organised by our minds — and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds. We cut nature... | |
 | Lluís Albert Chillón Asensio, Lluís Albert Chillón - Journalism and literature - 1999 - 480 pages
...nati ve languages. The categories and types that we isolate from de world of phenomena we do not tlnd there because they stare every observer in the face;...kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organizad by our minds -and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds. We cut nature... | |
 | Marianne Noble - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 240 pages
...not equivalent as observers but must arrive at somewhat different views of the world" (1940); and (2) "We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native...flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds — and this means largely by the linguistic systems of our minds" (1956) (qtd. in Gumperz and... | |
 | Lothar Bredella - Language and culture - 2000 - 348 pages
...Benjamin Lee Whorf bringt diese relativistische Sprachauffassung überzeugend zum Ausdruck, wenn er sagt: We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native...flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds - and this means largely by the linguistic Systems in our minds. (Whorf 1956:213) Whorfs Auffassung,... | |
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We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages. The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic... 
