This class seems to us too large and inclusive, but so would our class 'snow' to an Eskimo. We have the same word for falling snow, snow on the ground, snow packed hard like ice, slushy snow, wind-driven flying snow— whatever the situation may be. To... Collected Papers on Metalinguistics - Página 6por Benjamin Lee Whorf - 1952 - 52 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Benjamin Lee Whorf - 1950 - 60 páginas
...flying class minus bird. The Hopi actually call insect, airplane, and aviator all by the same word, and feel no difficulty about it. The situation, of course,...would say that falling snow, slushy snow, and so on, ar^sensuously and operationally different, different things to contend with; he uses different words... | |
| Benjamin Lee Whorf - 1956 - 302 páginas
...flying class minus bird. The Hopi actually call insect, airplane, and aviator all by the same word, and feel no difficulty about it. The situation, of course,...would say that falling snow, slushy snow, and so on, are sensuously and operationally different, different things to contend with; he uses different words... | |
| Johnnetta B. Cole - 1988 - 594 páginas
...concluded that the way we categorize events linguistically determines the way we think about them. We have the same word for falling snow, snow on the...would say that falling snow, slushy snow, and so on, are sensuously and operationally different things to contend with; he uses different words for them... | |
| Geoffrey K. Pullum - 1991 - 247 páginas
...uncanny since Eskimos were not a prominent feature of Hartford's social scene at the time), he avers: We have the same word for falling snow, snow on the...would say that falling snow, slushy snow, and so on, are sensuously and operationally different, different things to contend with; he uses different words... | |
| John A. Lucy - 1992 - 350 páginas
...that our class 'snow' would seem too large and inclusive to an Eskimo: We have the same word [snow] for falling snow, snow on the ground, snow packed...would say that falling snow, slushy snow, and so on, are sensuously and operationally different, different things to contend with; he uses different words... | |
| Lewis S. Feuer - 524 páginas
...The Eskimo would regard our use of "snow" as too large and inclusive. We use the same word to denote falling snow, snow on the ground, snow packed hard like ice, slushy snow, flying snow, — in short, all the varieties of snow. But an Eskimo has different words for falling... | |
| Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley, Alan Girvin - 2000 - 532 páginas
...flying class minus hird. The Hopi actually call insect, airplane, and aviator all by the same word, and feel no difficulty about it. The situation, of course,...be. To an Eskimo, this all-inclusive word would be ahnost unthinkable; he would sav that failing snow, slushy snow, and so on, are sensuouses and operationally... | |
| Erika Cox - 2001 - 812 páginas
...famous is that the Eskimo people have very many more words for snow than, say, English speakers -• falling snow, snow on the ground, snow packed hard like ice, slushy snow and so on. He argued that Eskimo people therefore perceive and think about snow very differently from... | |
| 192 páginas
...actually call insect, airplane and aviator all by the same word, and feel no difficulty about it ... This class seems to us too large and inclusive, but so would our class 'snow' to an Eskimo.2 There are clearly many ways of classifying and grouping together objects and events in the... | |
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