This fact is very significant for modern science, for it means that no individual is free to describe nature with absolute impartiality but is constrained to certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. Four Articles on Metalinguistics - Página 5por Benjamin Lee Whorf - 1950 - 45 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Howard E Gardner - 2008 - 352 páginas
...be organized by our minds — and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds. . . . No individual is free to describe nature with absolute...interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (1956, pp. 153, 213-14) Many linguists were intrigued by the work of Whorf and Sapir, even as many... | |
| Valerie D. Greenberg - 1990 - 252 páginas
...codified in the patterns of our language. . . . This fact is very significant for modern science, for it means that no individual is free to describe nature...interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. — Benjamin Lee Whorf, "Science and Linguistics" These quotations direct our attention to two premises... | |
| John D. Kelly - 1991 - 294 páginas
...except by subscribing to the organization and classification of data which the agreement decrees. . . . No individual is free to describe nature with absolute...interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (Emphasis in original; 1956: 213-14) Whorf 's image of the "agreement" sounds more like a social contract... | |
| Roland Prélaz-Droux - 1995 - 236 páginas
...classification of data in order to communicate verbally) is very significant for modem science, for it means that no individual is free to describe nature...certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himselfmostfree.» Dans ce contexte, la RST doit fournir un mode de définition suffisamment explicite... | |
| Hans-Peter Grosshans - 1996 - 320 páginas
...festgehalten werden: Die Konstituierung von Sachverhalten ist erstens nicht eine Sache des Individuums: »No individual is free to describe nature with absolute...impartiality, but is constrained to certain modes of interpretations even while he thinks himself most free« (BL Whorf, Science and Linguistics, 214).... | |
| Eileen Barker - 390 páginas
...agreement is, of course, an implicit and unstated one, BUT ITS TERMS ARE ABSOLUTELY OBLIGATORY ... It means that no individual is free to describe nature...interpretation even while he thinks himself most free ... (Whorf 1940/1956: 213-14) Whorf was not an academic but a fire-inspection engineer. He wrote intuitive... | |
| Beat Lehmann - 1998 - 384 páginas
...classification of data which the agreement decrees. This fact is very significant for modern science, for it means that no individual is free to describe nature...most nearly free in such respects would be a linguist familiär with very many widely different linguistic Systems. As yet no linguist is in such a position.... | |
| Paul Kugler - 2002 - 146 páginas
...published in 1955, Whorf demonstrates through a comparative analysis of English, Navaho, and Hopi languages that "no individual is free to describe nature with...interpretation even while he thinks himself most free." Whorf introduced into linguistics a new principle of relativity which holds that all observers are... | |
| D. A. Cruse - 2002 - 960 páginas
...Wichtigkeit der Sprache und der Sprachwissenschaft deutlich machen wollte. Die Stelle lautet: „ ... no individual is free to describe nature with absolute...interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. [. . .] We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are... | |
| Kirsten Malmkjær - 2002 - 696 páginas
...that propounded by Sapir. Whorf's principle of relativity (1940, in Carroll 1956: 214) says merely that No individual is free to describe nature with...is constrained to certain modes of interpretation. . . . All observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe,... | |
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