Humboldt, worldview and language / / James W. Underhill [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Underhill James W (James William)
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 161 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 401
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Philosophy; Philosophers - Germany
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-159) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Humboldt Worldview & Language
• Titolo autorizzato: Humboldt, worldview and language
• ISBN: 0-7486-7180-3; 1-282-13661-5; 9786612136610; 0-7486-4022-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455271503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II