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 | Benjamin Lee Whorf - 1956 - 302 Seiten
..."real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group. . . . We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely...community predispose certain choices of interpretation. — Edward Sapir There will probably be general assent to the proposition that an accepted pattern... | |
 | Rudolf Arnheim - 1966 - 386 Seiten
...instance, of different shape, one perceives them as divisible into such categories as 'straight/ 'crooked,' 'zigzag,' because of the classificatory suggestiveness...community predispose certain choices of interpretation" (15, p. 162). This means that you call a line a zigzag not because you see that it has a zigzag shape;... | |
 | Richard Alexander - 1997 - 238 Seiten
...At this stage in the argument Sapir's well-worn words on the relativity of language may be ad-duced: We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely...community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (1929: 69) This intuitively evident state of affairs is what makes it difficult, nay, on first encounter,... | |
 | Hilary Wise - 1997 - 276 Seiten
...unconsciously built upon the language habits of the group. We see and hear and otherwise experience largely as we do because the language habits of our...community predispose certain choices of interpretation... (Whorf l956) Whorf supported this hypothesis with data from Hopi, a language of Central America, whose... | |
 | Claire Kramsch - 1998 - 148 Seiten
...different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached ... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely...community predispose certain choices of interpretation. t> Why do you think Sapir distinguishes between 'distinct worlds' and 'the same world with different... | |
 | Sandra Kumamoto Stanley - 1998 - 364 Seiten
...language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. . . . We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely...community predispose certain choices of interpretation, (qtd. in Whorf 134) Language institutionalizes a basic conformity among its users, whose interactions... | |
 | British Association for Applied Linguistics. Meeting - 1998 - 180 Seiten
...share the view of Edward Sapir, when he points out that language is a guide to social reality and that We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely...community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (1949: 69) It is also a grave mistake to suggest that Translation Studies is merely a branch of literary... | |
 | Denis Lawton - 1968 - 194 Seiten
...different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached. We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely...community predispose certain choices of interpretation.' The essentially Sapir-Whorf view was that language is not merely a vehicle for thought but an objective... | |
 | Dane R. Gordon - 1998 - 180 Seiten
...real world is to a large extent unconsciously built upon the language habits of the group....We see, hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do...community predispose certain choices of interpretation." 2 The sacred power of the Communist language was expected to inculcate in people the belief that they... | |
 | RoseMarie Pérez Foster - 1998 - 278 Seiten
...group patterned and organized their environment. According to Sapir, "we as individuals see, hear and experience very largely as we do because the language...community predispose certain choices of interpretation" (1929, p. 209). Following this view, people who have acquired two or more languages from their life... | |
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