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  • Man Behind the Music
    Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), January 15, 2010
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    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...as any guy of a certain age will recall, was an iconic album in more ways than one. Its cover, shot by photographer Peter Whorf, showed model Dolores Erickson apparently wearing nothing but a strategic pile of whipped cream. Alpert didnt like it...
     
  • Foul Play by Al-Saadi; ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENTS
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 26, 2011
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...passing generation it seems the legend of the plethora of eskimo words for snow has grown. In 1940, linguistics expert Benjamin Whorf referred to eskimo languages having seven distinct words for snow. By 1978, the number quoted had reached 50, and on February...
     
  • 'Sopranos' Cast Intact
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 4, 2006
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...died five months after the films release. Directed by Michael Curtiz, the movie also stars Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning and George Tobias. Compiled by Robyn-Denise Yourse from staff, Web and wire reports
     
  • Girls Go for Absurd, Sarcastic Bohos
    Newspaper article by Joseph Szadkowski; The Washington Times, July 11, 1998
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...publisher Flypaper Press featuring the writing talents of a 16-year-old girl. Southern California high school student Maggie Whorf creates a book that will appeal to the targeted demographic and offers something that even an unhip goof like myself can enjoy...
     
  • More Than Mahler Ravinia Looks to Expand Its Audience with More Music, High-Tech Promotions
    Newspaper article by Bill Gowen; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 19, 2006
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    ...artists appearing during the 2006 season, along with Ravinia president and CEO Welz Kauffman, who will join WFMT hosts Peter Whorf and Lisa Flynn on the air between 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. You can also order tickets: - Online by visiting ravinia.org...
     


Encyclopedia Articles on: whorf

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  • Whorf, Benjamin Lee
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    WHORF, BENJAMIN LEE hworf, 1897 1941, American...engineering and worked for an insurance company, Whorf made substantial contributions to Mayan and...linguistics, and helped to develop the Sapir Whorf hypothesis. Also known as the linguistic...
     
  • Sapir, Edward
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...of anthropology and linguistics at Yale from 1931 until his death. With his student Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897 1941) he developed the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, arguing that the limits of language restrict the scope of possible thought and that...
     
  • Semantics
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...language was recognized. Among the foremost linguistic semanticists of the 20th cent. are Gustaf Stern, Jost Trier, B. L. Whorf, Uriel Weinreich, Stephen Ullmann, Thomas Sebeok, Noam Chomsky , Jerrold Katz, and Charles Osgood. In the linguistics...
     
  • Rosch, Eleanor
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...lacks words for colors except black and white, still distinguish among other colors. This finding contradicted the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (see Sapir, Edward ), which holds that language determines thought to the extent that people cannot understand...