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Ideas of Benjamin Lee Whorf, by Text
[American, 1897 - 1941, Born in Winthrop. Anthropologist, who did fieldwork with Hopi Indians to study their language. Died at Wethersfield.]
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1936
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An American Indian model of the Universe
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p.246
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p.246
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3917
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Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages
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p.57
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p.57
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3915
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The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future
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p.63
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p.63
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3916
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Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things
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1936
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Punctual and segmentive Hopi verbs
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p.55
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p.55
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Language arranges sensory experience to form a world-order
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