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The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (1897--1941) grasped the relationship between human language and human thinking: how language can shape our innermost thoughts. His basic thesis is that our perception of the world and our ways of thinking about it are deeply influenced by the structure of the languages we speak. The writings collected in this volume include important papers on the Maya, Hopi, and Shawnee languages as well as more general reflections on language and meaning.

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<p> Benjamin Lee Whorf's scholarly contributions were substantial both intechnical linguistics and in the broader area for which he is best known, therelation between language perception and thought. --Literature East and West, the newsletter of the Conference on Oriental-Western Library Relations of the ModernLanguage Association of America.

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Benjamin Lee Whorf, originally trained as a chemical engineer, began his work in linguistics in the 1920s and became well known for his studies of the Hopi language. He studied with the famous linguist Edward Sapir at Yale University, formulating with him the Sapir– Whorf Hypothesis of linguistic relativity.

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