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Publication details [#41911]
Lee, Penny. 2000. Benjamin Lee Whorf. In Östman, Jan-Ola, Jef Verschueren, Jan Blommaert and Chris Bulcaen, eds. Handbook of Pragmatics. 1998 Installment. John Benjamins.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Annotation
Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) offered perspectives on language very compatible with the broader understanding of linguistics that now characterizes European pragmatics. This paper provides a brief introduction to Whorf, his life, his influence, and the current relevance of his theories about language in cognition and society.