 | Benjamin Lee Whorf - Language and languages - 1950 - 60 pages
...concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way — an agreement that holds throughout...terms are absolutely obligatory; we cannot talk at Till except by subscribing to the organization and classification of data which the agreement decrees.... | |
 | Benjamin Lee Whorf - Language and languages - 1952 - 64 pages
...ascribe_significanc<-.s as wc~do. largely because we are ^ parties to ah ngi-wmpnt to "re*"1'"' '* in thi,1 ""y — an agreement that holds throughout our speech community...agreement is, 'of course, an implicit and unstated one. ACT .>. i*rm,_nj-f phmniuirijf "Hjgginrjf: WP p^nnnt tjilk at all except by subscribing to the organization... | |
 | Benjamin Lee Whorf - Language and languages - 1956 - 302 pages
...concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way— an agreement that holds throughout...implicit and unstated one, BUT ITS TERMS ARE ABSOLUTELY OBJECTIVE FIELD SPEAKER HEARER (SENDER) (RECEIVER) HANDLING OF TOPIC, RUNNING OF THIRD PERSON SITUATION... | |
 | Harold Robert Isaacs - Political Science - 1989 - 260 pages
...up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do largely because we are parties to an agreement that holds throughout our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.5 Taken as a chicken-and-egg or cart-and-horse issue, the SapirWhorf view of the governing... | |
 | P. N. Johnson-Laird, P. C. Wason - Psychology - 1977 - 636 pages
...concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way - an agreement that holds throughout...community and is codified in the patterns of our language. Whorf worked as an insurance inspector, but in his spare time he made a study of American Indian languages.... | |
 | Jeffrey K. Zeig, Stephen R. Lankton - Hypnotism - 1988 - 566 pages
...concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way — an agreement that holds throughout...community and is codified in the patterns of our language. (Whorf, 1956, p. 213) Language, then, is essentially expressive of an individual's subjective world.... | |
 | Hadley Cantril, Albert Hadley Cantril - Psychology - 274 pages
...concepts. and ascribe significances as we do. largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way — an agreement that holds throughout...community and is codified in the patterns of our language. [i940: 42] Our own awareness of what goes on in our minds as our assumptions are triggered into operation... | |
 | Seong Chee Tham - Foreign Language Study - 1990 - 188 pages
...through language (more specifically its background linguistic system) that: We cut nature up, organise it into concepts and ascribe significances as we do,...speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.53 Thus, thought is relative, varying from language to language. In this way, Whorf put forward... | |
 | J. van Roey - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 162 pages
...« organise it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement that holds throughout our speech community...its terms are absolutely obligatory; we cannot talk except by subscribing to the organisation and classification of data which the agreement decrees »... | |
 | Valerie D. Greenberg - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 252 pages
...concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way — an agreement that holds throughout...community and is codified in the patterns of our language. . . . This fact is very significant for modern science, for it means that no individual is free to... | |
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We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way — an agreement that holds throughout our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our... 
