Benjamin Lee Whorf's theory of language, culture, and consciousness: A critique of western science [An article from: Language and Communication]

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Benjamin Lee Whorf's (1897-1941) writings generally fall into two categories: those related to his research on the Hopi and Mayan cultures and languages, and those providing a critique of linguistic theory in particular and Western science in general. This paper is focused on six essays in Carroll's collection of Whorf's work: the first two essays, written in the mid-1930s, fall into the first category: ''An American Indian Model of the Universe'' and ''A Linguistic Consideration of Thinking in Primitive Communities''; and the final four essays, written at the end of his life, fall into the second category: ''Science and Linguistics'' (1940), ''Linguistics as an Exact Science'' (1940), ''Language and Logic'' (1941), and ''Language, Mind, and Reality'' (1942).