Language: Plan and Conception of Arrangement
- Title
- Language: Plan and Conception of Arrangement
- Description
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Editor's note: In 1938, Whorf circulated this table and an accompanying outline in manuscript form among selected colleagues. It was written as a supplement to the Outline of cultural materials prepared by George P. Murdock and his colleagues at the Department of Anthropology at Yale University as a guide to ethnological field workers, and is referred to in the brief "Language" section of that outline.
In several places in his writings Whorf mentions the desirability of a "world-survey" of languages; this outline was doubtless intended by him as a suggested standard framework for collecting the information on particular languages which would be needed for such a survey.
The reader's attention should be directed first to the table … which displays the whole scheme of language as conceived by Whorf. - Creator
- Whorf, Benjamin Lee
- Date
- 1938
- Bibliographic Citation
- Whorf, Benjamin Lee. 1956. Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf. Edited and with an Introduction by John B. Carroll. MIT Press. Page 126
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