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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Richard,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have to weigh in with Bonnie and the others who
cite Harry Hoijer. Some years ago I did a grad paper for Victor Golla
entitled "Whatever Happened to the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?" In those
pre-computer days (remeber those?) I and a series of harassed Library of
Congress reference librarians came to the conclusion that Hoijer coined the term
and used it as the basis of an all-star linguistics panel, subsequently
published as AAA memoir #79. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can't find the paper (I suspect it's in storage
in the US) but as I recall Hoijer seemed to base the whole "Sapir-Whorf
hypothesis" on three quotations from Sapir and Whorf. Neither Sapir nor
Whorf ever stated it in hypothesis form and their own wording is tentative and
subject to many interpretations. I am particularly interested in Whorf's
emphasis on links between language categories and <EM>habitual </EM>(as opposed
to conscious strategic) action. It not only makes clear that Whorf wasn't
suggesting a "strong" hypothesis but reminds me both of Bourdieu's <EM>habitus
</EM>and Peirce's writings on habit.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mark</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:burciuol@hamilton.edu"
title=burciuol@hamilton.edu>burciuol</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:linganth@cc.rochester.edu"
title=linganth@cc.rochester.edu>linganth@cc.rochester.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 11, 2001 10:59
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Sapir-Whorf</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>For one useful starting point, see <U>Language in Culture:
Proceedings of a Conference on the Interrelations of Language and Other
Aspects of Culture</U>. Ed, Harry Hoijer. published by the
American Anthropological Association, vol.56, #6, part 2, memoir #79, December
1954. In the preface (on p.vii), Hoijer lists what he and Robert
Redfield saw as the objectives of the conference, starting with this
point:<BR>"1. To define, as clearly as possible, the problems raised by the
attempt to interrelate language and other aspects of culture, particularly in
reference to the hypothesis suggested in Benjamin L. Whorf's <I>Collected
Papers on Metalinguistics</I>, (Washington DC 1952)."<BR><BR>This conference,
with an all-star participant list, was held in Chicago in March 1953, and the
papers and discussion published in the above-described volume.
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