 | David D. Laitin - 1977 - 296 ページ
...are akin to different mathematical systems, and that study of language categories would demonstrate "the tyrannical hold that linguistic form has upon our orientation in the world."12 These speculations were subject to two major problems. First, anthropologists feared that... | |
 | Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney - 1981 - 274 ページ
...former. According to Sapir (1964:128), language "actually defines experience for us," and he points to the "tyrannical hold that linguistic form has upon our orientation in the world." Similarly, Whorf (1952:5) explains language, especially grammatical categories, as "the shaper of ideas."... | |
 | Robert Feleppa - 1988 - 332 ページ
...of course, derivative of experience in the last analysis, but, once abstracted from experience, they are systematically elaborated in language and are...linguistic form has upon our orientation in the world. Inasmuch as languages differ very widely in their systematization of fundamental concepts, they tend... | |
 | Frederick J. Newmeyer - 1988 - 179 ページ
...expectations into the field of experience. . . . Such categories as number, gender, case, tense . . . are not so much discovered in experience as imposed...linguistic form has upon our orientation in the world. 14 Sapir's ideas were further developed and applied to specific languages by his student Whorf. Since... | |
 | Edgar C. Polomé, Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Werner Winter - 1988 - 818 ページ
...Statements of Sapir (1931) asserting, for example, that 'Such categories as number, gender, case, tense, ... are not so much discovered in experience as imposed...linguistic form has upon our orientation in the world' and of Whorf (1964: 36) proclaiming that 'linguistics is fundamental to the theory of thinking' are... | |
 | John A. Lucy - 1992 - 350 ページ
...are, of course, derivative of experience at last analysis, but, once abstracted from experience, they are systematically elaborated in language and are...linguistic form has upon our orientation in the world. (Sapir. 1964 [1931]. p. 128) (See also Sapir 1949d [1933], p. 10.) In short, Sapir claims we anticipate... | |
 | Arthur Asa Berger - 1995 - 226 ページ
...are, of course derivative of experience at last analysis, but, once abstracted from experience, they are systematically elaborated in language and are...linguistic form has upon our orientation in the world. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis gives language a dominant role in shaping our perceptions of the world.... | |
 | Derek Edwards - 1997 - 370 ページ
...are, of course, derivative of experience at last analysis, but, once abstracted from experience, they are systematically elaborated in language and are...linguistic form has upon our orientation in the world' (Sapir, 1931/1964: 128, cited in Lucy, 1992: 20, emphasis added). 12. 'Morphemes' are the units of... | |
 | Antoine Culioli - 1999 - 188 ページ
...are, of course, derivative of experience at last analysis, but once abstracted from experience, they are systematically elaborated in language and are...discovered in experience as imposed upon it because ofthe tyrannical hold that linguistic form has upon our orientation in the world. Inasmuch as languages... | |
 | Berkeley Anna Livia Visiting Assistant Professor of French University of California - 2000 - 250 ページ
...linguistic structure is a central part of the formation of consciousness. In Edward Sapir's words, "Such categories as ... gender ... are systematically...linguistic form has upon our orientation in the world" ([1929] 1970,68-9). We are born into a linguistic community whose language we learn as infants, inheriting... | |
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... not so much discovered in experience as imposed upon it because of the tyrannical hold that linguistic form has upon our orientation in the world. 
