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Recently the following sentences were removed from the article:
Motivation for the deletion was that 'opinions on outstanding human beings are a dime a dozen'. I don't agree. But let me first quote Lakoff correctly. The quote comes from Lakoff's (1987) influential book Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. It is the concluding remark of a section on Whorf's views in Chapter 18 (titled 'Whorf and Relativism') of the book. I quote:
In my opinion, a quote like this from a linguist like this is highly relevant to the article. Whorf was (and still is) controversial in linguistics; Lakoff admits so, but at the same time highly appreciates some of his thoughts, and furthermore adds that Whorf was a pioneer as a human being. I've re-added it, corrected it, and added the reference. — mark ✎ 00:48, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I examined the page history, hoping that the bibliography grew from some reasonable length to its present exhaustive size (unusable for encyclopedic purposes), and that i could keep the current versions of the original entries while moving the new ones here. But it sprang forth full-grown like Venus. If no one is prepared to move the excess to here in the next week, it should be moved here en masse, to serve as source material, while we wait as long as it takes for someone to come up with something like a half-dozen crucial items.
--Jerzy(t) 21:44, 2005 Jan 22 (UTC)
I feel that the page should include some criticism of Whorf's work, which is plentiful. At the very least, Whorf's explanation for the "empty" gasoline drum incident is laughable, it's far more likely the worker was fooled by his eyes than by any semantics of the word "empty." Whorf's claims about the Apache mind are even my ludicrous, as Steven Pinker points out in his book The Language Instinct (pg. 50), "First, Whorf did not actually study any Apaches; it is not clear that he ever met one. His assertions about Apache psychology are based entirely on Apache grammar-making his argument circular. Apaches speak differently, so they must think differently. How do we know that they think differently? Just listen to the way they speak!" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.65.63.52 (talk) 03:23, 7 February 2008 (UTC)Reply
Despite the discussion above, it seems like the bibliography was never actually moved here. So here it is then, after all. Junes 12:47, 2 December 2005 (UTC)Reply
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___. "From Epistemic Subject to Unique Creative Person at Work." Archives de Psychologie 54(1985): 167-85.
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___ and S.N. Davis. "Inching Our Way Up Mount Olympus: The Evolving Systems Approach to Creative Thinking." In The Nature of Creativity. Ed. R.J. Sternberg. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988: 243-69.
___. "On the Hypothesized Relation Between Giftedness and Creativity." New Directions for Child Development 17(1982): 7-30.
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___. "Piaget's Mission." Social Research 49(1982): 239-64. (PM)
___ and J.J. Voneche. "Reflexions sur les operations formelles de la pensee." Archieves de Psychologie 44(1976): 45-55.
___ and I.A. Sehl. "Transcending Relativism: Going Beyond the Information I am Given." In W. Callebaut, S.E. Cozzens, B.P. Lecuyer, A. Rip, and J.P. Van Bendegem, eds. George Sarton Centennial. Ghent, Belgium: Communication and Cognition, 1984.
___. "Which Way is Up? A Developmental Question." In Adult Cognitive Development. Ed. R.A. Mines and K.S. Kitchener. New York: Praeger: 112-33.
Gumperz, John J. and Stephen C. Levinson. "Rethinking Linguistic Relativity." Current Anthropology 32(1991): 613-24.
Harris, Randy Allen. The Linguistics Wars. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Hollander, John. "Asylum Avenue." The Wallace Stevens Journal 1.2 (1977): 68.
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Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Lavery, David. "Creative Work: On the Method of Howard Gruber." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 33.2 (1993): 101-21.
Lee,-Benjamin. "Peirce, Frege, Saussure, and Whorf: The Semiotic Mediation of Ontology." Semiotic Mediation: Sociocultural and Psychological Perspectives. ." Ed. Elizabeth Mertz and Richard J. Parmentier. Orlando, FL: Academic, 1985. 99-128.
___. "Semiotic Origins of Mind-Body Dualism." Semiotics, Self, and Society. Ed. Benjamin Lee and Greg Urban. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1989. 193-228.
Levinson, S. Language and mind: Let’s get the issues straight! In D. Gentner & S. Goldin-Meadow (eds.), Language in mind: Advances in the study of language and cognition (2003, pp. 25-46). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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Lucy,-John-A.; Wertsch,-James-V. "Vygotsky and Whorf: A Comparative Analysis." Social and Functional Approaches to Language and Thought. Ed. Maya Hickmann. New York: Academic, 1987. 67-86
Martin, Laura. "'Eskimo Words for Snow.' A Case Study in the Genesis and Decay of an Anthropological Example." American Anthropologist 88 (1986): 418-23.
d'Olivet. Fabre. The Hebrew Language Restored. Trans. Nayan Louise Redfield. 1921.
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Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
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___. "Blazing Icicles." Hartford Agent, 1940.
___. "A Brotherhood of Thought." Main Currents in Modern Thought 1.4 (1941): 13-14.
___. "A Central Mexican Inscription Combining Mexican and Maya Day Signs." American Anthropologist 34(1932): 296-302; in Language, Thought, and Reality: 43-50.
___. Collected Papers on Metalinguistics. Washington, DC: Department of State, Foreign Service Institute, 1952.
___. "The Comparative Linguistics of Uto-Aztecan." American Anthropologist 37(1935): 600-608.
___. "Concerning Science and Religion." Benjamin Lee Whorf Papers. Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library.
___. "Decipherment of the Linguistic Portion of the Maya Hiero glyphs" (1940). In Language, Thought, and Reality: 173-198.
___. "Discussion of Hopi Linguistics" (1937). In Language, Thought, and Reality: 102-111.
___. "Dr. Reiser's Humanism." Main Currents in Modern Thought 1.5 (1941): 12- 14.
___. "The Expansion Theory." Benjamin Lee Whorf Papers. Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library.
___. "The Flux-Outlet Theory." Benjamin Lee Whorf Papers. Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library.
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___. "Grammatical Categories." Language 21(1945): 1-11; In Language, Thought, and Reality: 87-101.
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___. "The Hurrians of Old Chaldea." Main Currents in Modern Thought 1.3 (1941): 15.
___. "In Defense of Puritanism." Benjamin Lee Whorf Papers. Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library.
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___. "Language, Mind, and Reality." The Theosophist 63(1942): 281-91; rpt. ETC, A Review of General Semantics 9(1952): 167-88; In Language, Thought, and Reality: 246-270.
___. "Language: Plan and Conception of an Arrangement" (1938). In Language, Thought, and Reality: 125-134.
___. Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf. Edited by John B. Carroll. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1956.
___. "Languages and Logic." Technology Review 43(1941): 250-52, 266, 268, 272; In Language, Thought, and Reality: 233-45.
___. "Light-Velocity and Expansion." Benjamin Lee Whorf Papers. Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library.
___. "A Linguistic Consideration of Thinking in Primitive Communities" (1936). In Language, Thought, and Reality: 65-86.
___. "Linguistic Factors in the Terminology of Hopi Architecture." International Journal of American Linguistics 19(1953): 141-45; In Language, Thought, and Reality: 199-206.
___. "Linguistics as an Exact Science." Technology Review 43(1940): 61-63, 80-83; In Language, Thought, and Reality: 220-232.
___. "Loan Words in Ancient Mexico." Philological and Documentary Studies 1(1943): 1-17; rpt. Studies in Linguistics 5(1947): 49-64.
___. "The Maya Manuscript in Dresden." Art and Archaeology 34(1933): 270.
___. "Maya Writing and Its Decipherment." Maya Research 2(1935): 367-82.
___. "Notes on the Tubatulabal Language." American Anthropologist 38(1936): 341-44.
___. "On Being." Benjamin Lee Whorf Papers. Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library.
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___. "On Psychology" (n.d.). In Language, Thought, and Reality: 40-42.
___. "The Origin of Aztec TL." American Anthropologist 39(1937): 265-74.
___. "Phonemic Analysis of the English of Eastern Massachusetts." Studies in Linguistics 2(1943): 21-40.
___. The Phonetic Value of Certain Characters in Maya Writing. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vo. XIII, No. 8 Cambridge: Peabody Museum and Harvard University, 1933.
___. "Pines." Benjamin Lee Whorf Papers. Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library.
___. "The Punctual and Segmentative Aspects of Verbs in Hopi." Langugage 12(1936): 127-31; In Language, Thought, and Reality: 51-56.
___. "Purpose vs. Evolution." New Republic, 19 Dec. 1925.
___. "The Reign of Huemac." American Anthropologist 31(1929): 667-84.
___. "The Relation of Habitual Thought and Behavior to Language." Language, Culture, and Personality. Ed. Leslie Spier. Menasha, WI: Sapir Memorial Publication Fund, 1941: 75-93; In Language, Thought, and Reality: 134-159.
___, with George L. Trager. "The Relationship of Uto-Aztecan and Tanoan." American Anthropologist 39(1937): 609-24.
___. Review of Living Light by E.N. Harvey. Main Currents in Modern Thought 1.1 (1940): 3-5.
___. Review of The Way of Things by W.P. Montague." Main Currents in Modern Thought 1.4 (1941): 10-11.
___. "Science and Linguistics." Technology Review 42(1940): 229-31, 247-48; In Language, Thought, and Reality: 207-219.
___. "Some Verbal Categories of Hopi." Language 14(1938): 275-86; In Language, Thought, and Reality: 112-24.
___. "Toward a Higher Mental World." Main Currents in Modern Thought 1.7 (1941): 14-15.
___. "Unanswered Questions from Ancient Times." Benjamin Lee Whorf Papers. Yale University, Sterling Memorial `Library.
___. "Universal Trinity in Unity." Benjamin Lee Whorf Papers. Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library.
___. "We May End the War That is Within All Wars That are Waged to End All Wars." Main Currents in Modern Thought 1.1 (1940): 9-10.
___. "Why I Have Discarded Evolution." Benjamin Lee Whorf Papers. Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library.
Did Whorf live among the Hopi people, and if so, for how long?
The version of the Whorf article that is up on September 7, 2010 cites Guy Deutscher's book Through the Language Glass to say that Whorf never visited the Hopi reservation (notes 9 and 10). While it is true that Whorf did most of his work on Hopi with an informant in New York, he made at least one trip to the Hopi in 1938. You will find this in John B. Carroll's introduction to his edited volume of Whorf's papers, Language, Thought, and Reality, 1956, p. 17; and see Penny Lee, The Whorf Theory Complex, 1996, p. 13. Whorf had also done field research in Mexico on other languages of the Uto-Aztecan family. Hippojo (talk) 02:01, 8 September 2010 (UTC)Reply
The remark credited to Whorf about Hopi seems to be ungrammatical.
This article states that his theory of linguistic relativity, which he developed with Edward Sapir. Nowadays, this theory is often misrepresented as being synonymous with the "Sapir–Whorf hypothesis", which was in fact a posthumous appellation, referring to a number of Whorf's ideas on top of linguistic relativity,, but Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis redirects to linguistic relativism, in an article which states they are the same thing.
Which one is correct? (I don't know enough myself, but as a user I can see that clearly one of the articles is wrong.) VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 01:43, 12 June 2009 (UTC)Reply
I reverted [this edit] because it does appear to be by Whorf, in Language, Thought and Reality. I can't find a page number, but [here] we can see a number of books citing it as by him, about half before internet memes could spread, and a few rather respectable ones. The revert was done because I think the quote is properly attributed to Whorf, but a page number would be nice for anyone who has a copy of the book... VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 16:24, 12 June 2009 (UTC)Reply
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Comment before the bot closes this: I'm in the process of reading through and in my view the subject's work is what makes him notable, so I'd be careful about splitting out, fwiw. Truthkeeper (talk) 21:57, 2 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
Pretty much done except for the lead, but I'm not very good with leads. At a quick glance I think the lead should be trimmed down a bit too to make it easier to read for the casual reader who doesn't make it through the entire article.
A couple of questions and points that I may have missed because I worked from the bottom up:
That's about it. Back in a few days to finish the lead. Truthkeeper (talk) 00:14, 18 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
Alford 1981 p. 21 cites a 1941 Radio Speech by Einstein in which he says: "What is it that brings about such an ultimate connection between language and thinking?... The mental development of the individual and his ability to form concepts depend to a high degree upon language. This makes us realize to what extent the same language means the same mentality." He then goes on to analyze the parallels between Whorf's presentation of the linguistic relativity principle and Einsteins' principle of general relativity in depth. ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 02:38, 18 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
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Ok, very good, just some nitpicks I have found (some of which I had previously corrected myself):
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I was astounded to see this article at Benjamin Lee Whorf with a redirect from Benjamin Whorf. But it appears to be correct, and I have learned something.
I studied Whorf fairly intensely in the mid 1990s and rarely saw his middle name mentioned, and then mainly in formal bibliographies. But Google books gives 41,400 hits as opposed to only 9,360 when I leave out the middle name.
The article was unilaterally moved ten years ago, 05:31, 11 September 2008 Rdsmith4 (talk | contribs | block) . . (32 bytes) (+32) . . (moved Benjamin Whorf to Benjamin Lee Whorf over redirect: Most common rendering of Whorf's name.) apparently without discussion, but apparently also quite correctly. That editor has not edited for almost a year so I don't think it's worth pinging them to ask for evidence. The evidence is there if you look. Andrewa (talk) 07:09, 12 March 2018 (UTC)Reply