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Humboldt, worldview and language / James W. Underhill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Underhill, James W. (James William)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 1767-1835.
- Humboldt, Wilhelm von.
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 161 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a short academic introduction to the work of the German 19th-century philologist Wilhelm von Humboldt and with theories loosely referred to in connection with the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis.
- Contents:
- The word is a world (La parole est un monde)
- What do we have in mind when we talk about language?
- What do we see in the term worldview?
- Boas
- Sapir
- Whorf
- Worldview (Weltanschauung or Weltansicht)
- Sprache
- The work of the mind
- Form
- Creativity, culture and character
- Catching the character
- A seeing and feeling worldview
- Four dangers in the comparative approach
- Reformulating the worldview hypothesis
- A final word.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-159) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612136610
- 9780748671809
- 0748671803
- 9781282136618
- 1282136615
- 9780748640225
- 0748640223
- OCLC:
- 430834891
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