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Language in culture; conference on the interrelations of language and other aspects of culture. With papers by Franklin Fearing [and others.

Hoijer, Harry, 1904- (Author). University of Chicago. Dept. of Anthropology. (Added Author).
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  • Physical Description: ix, 286 p. 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Chicago] : University of Chicago Press, [1954]

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General Note: "Also published as Memoir no. 79 of the American Anthropological Association."
"The conference was held in Chicago from March 23 to 27, 1953, inclusive, under the sponsorship of the Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago."
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographies.
Formatted Contents Note: pt. 1. The papers: Concerning inferences from linguistic to nonlinguistic data / by Joseph H. Greenberg -- Analysis of the cultural content of language materials / by Norman A. McQuown -- Shawnee laws: perceptual statements for the language and for the content / by C.F. Voegelin, John F. Yegerlehner, and Florence M. Robinett -- An examination of the conceptions of Benjamin Whorf in the light of theories of perception and cognition / by Franklin Fearing -- Semantic problems in grammatical systems and lexemes: a search for method / by Stanley Newman -- The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis / by Harry Hoijer -- Chinese versus English: an exploration of the Whorfian theses / by Charles F. Hockett -- pt. 2. The discussions: First session: Inferences from linguistic to nonlinguistic data -- Second session: The cultural content of language materials -- Third session: Gestalt theory and language -- Fourth session: The Whorf hypothesis and psychological theory -- Fifth session: Identifying the dominant conceptual categories in a language -- Sixth session: The problem of the Whorf hypothesis -- Seventh session: The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis -- Eighth session: Chinese versus English: an exploration of the Whorfian theses -- Ninth session: The strategy of research in the interrelations of language and other aspects of culture.

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