Publications

Publication details [#4785]

Hockett, Charles F. 1954. Chinese versus English: An exploration of the Whorfian theses. In Hoijer, Harry, ed. Language in culture: Conference on the interrelations of language and other aspects of culture. Univ. of Chicago Press. pp. 106–123.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

culture | linguistic relativity

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Annotation

H. offers a classification of various points of contact between language and culture, and examines differences between Chinese and English in view of the linguistic relativity principle.

Reprints

Fried, Morton H. 1959. In Fried, Morton H., ed. Readings in anthropology, vol. 1: Readings in physical anthropology, linguistics, and archeology. T.Y. Cromwell. pp. 232–248.