Humboldt, worldview and language / / James W. Underhill
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| Autore: |
Underhill James W (James William)
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| Titolo: |
Humboldt, worldview and language / / James W. Underhill
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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 161 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 401 |
| Soggetto topico: | Language and languages - Philosophy |
| Llenguatge i llengües | |
| Filòsofs | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Alemanya |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Llibres electrònics |
| Classificazione: | CG 4477 |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Humboldt, worldview and language |
| ISBN: | 9786612136610 |
| 9780748671809 | |
| 0748671803 | |
| 9781282136618 | |
| 1282136615 | |
| 9780748640225 | |
| 0748640223 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910958643603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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