The Whorf Theory Complex

1. Acknowledgments; 2. Preface; 3. Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview; 4. 1.1 The Early Work: 1924-1930; 5. 1.2 1931-1941: The Final Years; 6. 1.3 Misread, Unread, and Superficially Treated; 7. 1.4 The Theory Complex: An Overview; 8. 1.5 Elements of the Complex Summarized; 9. Chapter 2. Linguistic Thinking: Points, Pattern, Linkage, and Rapport; 10. 2.1 Patternment; 11. 2.2 Points in the Pattern; 12. 2.3 Emergent from a Field of Causes; 13. 2.4 Linguistic Thinking; 14. 2.5. Form and Substance, Process and Content: Cutting through the Dichotomies to Linguistic Thinking; 15. Chapter 3. The Logic and Development of the Linguistic Relativity Principle; 16. 3.1 The Linguistic Relativity Principle; 17. 3.2 Raw Experience; 18. 3.3 Isolates of Experience: the Nonlinguistic Configuration of Experience; 19. 3.4 A Canon of Reference, the Same for all Observers; 20. 3.5 The Biological Segmentation of Reality; 21. 3.6 Different Essentials from the Same Situation; 22. 3.7 The Yale Report and Configurative Linguistics; 23. 3.8 An Analysis of Hopi Stems: Gestalt Theory in the Service of Linguistics; 24. 3.9 Overview of the Yale Report; 25. Chapter 4. Of Covert Categories, Cryptotypes, and the Internalized Linguistic System; 26. 4.1 A Whorfian Psycholinguistics; 27. 4.2 Marking and Grammatical Classes; 28. 4.3 Terminological Anomalies; 29. 4.4 Grammatical Meaning and The Problem of Levels in Linguistic Description; 30. 4.5 The Data of Utterances; 31. Chapter 5. Abstractive Processes and the Question of Universals; 32. 5.1 Abstractive Processes in Cognition; 33. 5.2 Experiential, Conceptual, and Linguistic Universals; 34. Chapter 6. Metalinguistics: The Intercalihration of Agreement through Language Awareness; 35. 6.1 Introductory Comments; 36. 6.2 Three Kinds of Agreement; 37. 6.3 Metalinguistics; 38. 6.4 Language Awareness as an Augmentative Function in Cognition; 39. 6.5 Different Order Systems, Different Logics, and the Progress of Science; 40. Appendix: "The Yale Report"; 41. References; 42. Index of Names; 43. Index of Subjects