Another source of evidence is metalinguistics and the question of mutual intelligibility.
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In logical positivism, atheism, rationalism, empiricism, epistemology, general semantics, metalinguistics and related disciplines, there is a suggestion that communicated symbols should represent observable truths.
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Central to Whorf's inquiries was the approach later described as metalinguistics by G . L . Trager, who in 1950 published four of Whorf's essays as " Four articles on Metalinguistics ".
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Central to Whorf's inquiries was the approach later described as metalinguistics by G . L . Trager, who in 1950 published four of Whorf's essays as " Four articles on Metalinguistics ".
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Whorf's endeavors have since been taken up in the development of the study of metalinguistics and metalinguistic awareness, first by Michael Silverstein who published a radical and influential rereading of Whorf in 1979 and subsequently in the field of linguistic anthropology.