Benjamin Lee Whorf, originally trained as a chemical engineer,
began his work in linguistics in the 1920s and became well known
for his studies of the Hopi language. He studied with the famous
linguist Edward Sapir at Yale University, formulating with him the
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis of linguistic relativity.
Stephen C. Levinson is Director of the Language and Cognition Group
at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the
Netherlands.
Stephen C. Levinson is Director of the Language and Cognition Group
at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the
Netherlands.
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