It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection The fact of the matter is that the 'real... Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality - Page 9edited by - 1997 - 460 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Benjamin Lee Whorf - Language and languages - 1956 - 302 pages
...at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. .It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts...language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the "real... | |
| Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley, Alan Girvin - Art - 2000 - 532 pages
...at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of jj language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication... | |
| James Lamprecht - Business & Economics - 2000 - 248 pages
...Welcome to the world of virtual auditing. Part II The Limits of Quality: Essays on a Separate Reality The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built upon the language habits of the group. No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered... | |
| League of Canadian Poets. Feminist Caucus - Canadian poetry - 2000 - 176 pages
...organizes & tells us about our perceptions (including touch) comes from the language we speak. ("The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group . . . We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely... | |
| Penny Mukherji, Teresa O'Dea - Education - 2000 - 196 pages
...mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. . . . The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built upon the language habits of the group.' Arguments for and against this view have continued since it... | |
| John Earl Joseph, Nigel Love, Talbot J. Taylor - Linguistics - 2001 - 296 pages
...at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts...language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the 'real'... | |
| Roderick P. Hart, Daron R. Shaw, Daron Shaw - Business & Economics - 2001 - 274 pages
...at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts...language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the "real... | |
| Julio Calvo Pérez - Anthropological linguistics - 2001 - 438 pages
...realidad, también determina nuestra actitud ante los problemas sociales: It is quite an ¡Ilusión to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially...language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the 'real... | |
| John Gould - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 444 pages
...see the relevance to our thinking about Greek religion of Edward Sapir's words about language: The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group. No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered... | |
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