Readings and Outline. The readings will be drawn in large measure from the following books, that have been placed on reserve status in Harper Library as well as ordered at the Seminary Cooperative Bookstore. There are other readings, individual papers or chapters in other sources, that are also on reserve, as indicated in the full syllabus. 
 

2. "Color" terminology/categorization as a prototype of the linguistic relativity issue in both of these frameworks. 

3. Structures of categorization; structures of knowledge. The knowledge-structure of language form. "Universality" in language(s) and its cognitive status. 

4. Whorf’s analysis of the psychophysical problem in terms of grammar (grammatical categories); his proposals for how social actional patterns and patterns of language interact. Cultural stereotypy; its rise and pervasiveness as a categorial structural. 

5. Linguistic variability and its Whorfian implications. Cognitive success and the social action of using language. 

Course Requirements: 

[1] timely preparation of readings and participation in class discussions; 
 
[2] formulation and submission of two weekly discussion questions, based on readings, due each Thursday from the second week; 
 
[3] take-home mid-quarter and final essays: 
mid-quarter - given out 18 April, for return 23 April; 
final - given out 28 May, for return 4 June (exc. graduating seniors). 
 
 

Each syllabi the intellectual property of the author.