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Glushchenko, Volodymyr A., Iryna B. Korotiaieva, Viktoriia V. Roman, and Maryna Yu Rudenko. "THE SAPIR – WHORF HYPOTHESIS AND THE IDEA OF LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY (LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHIC ASPECT)." Мова, no. 41 (May 28, 2024): 5–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2307-4558.2024.41.311204.

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The purpose of the article is to reveal the views of E. Sapir and B. L. Whorf on the relationship between language, thinking and reality (experience), to briefly analyze some interpretations belonging to the critics of the Sapir — Whorf hypothesis, to identify those statements of Sapir and Whorf that have retained their value for linguistics at the beginning of the XXI century. The object of study is the phenomenon traditionally called the “Sapir — Whorf hypothesis”. The subject of the study is the views of Sаpir and Whorf on the relationship between language, thinking and reality (experience)

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Hodžić-Čavkić, Azra. "Interdisciplinarity of Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis." Društvene i humanističke studije (Online), no. 1(14) (February 4, 2021): 75–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.51558/2490-3647.2021.6.1.75.

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Linguistic relativism originally comes from anthropology and linguistics. However, most of the interpretations of linguistic relativism have come a long way considering the beginning of the 20th century – when it was established. One of the reasons for that lies in its interdisciplinary potential. In various arts, we find many applications of the philosophy of linguistic relativism. In this paper, we write about the application of the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis in the American movie Arrival (2016) and the novel from Bosnian writer EnesKarić named Boje višnje (2016).

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Bhandari, Sabindra Raj. "The Dimensions of Language and Thought in the Vedic Literature." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 11, no. 2 (2021): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1102.04.

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The present article explores the interrelationships between language and thought in the literature of the Vedic Canon. Whether language shapes thoughts or vice versa has remained a topic pregnant with perpetual discussions, interpretations, and explanations since the beginning of human civilization. Throughout the multiple crossroads of the development in the intellectual tradition, the dimensions of language and thought attracted many scholars and linguists. However, linguists like Edward Sapir and Benjamin L. Whorf in the twentieth century have systematically interpreted and analyzed the lan

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Fahira, Ayuke Nurul. "The Representation of Anxiety in Inside Out 2 Can Effect the Languages Produces: A Psycholinguistic Study Based on the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis." JAMPARING: Jurnal Akuntansi Manajemen Pariwisata dan Pembelajaran Konseling 3, no. 1 (2025): 741–47. https://doi.org/10.57235/jamparing.v3i1.5446.

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This paper is figure it out the emotional representation of new character anxiety in the animated film Inside Out 2 using a psycholinguistic analysis based on the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. This study seeks to explore interactions of language and emotion in expressing Riley's character in the film as she grows into adulthood. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis asserts that language influences thought and behaviour to serves as a theoretical framework for studying characters' emotional expressions and language use. The study demonstrates that Riley's language and conduct alter dramatically when an apprehe

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Perlovsky, Leonid. "Language and emotions: Emotional Sapir–Whorf hypothesis." Neural Networks 22, no. 5-6 (2009): 518–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2009.06.034.

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Prasadini, Nauka Nayana, and Tri Winindyasari Palupi. ""I Have No More Ideas to Tell": The Implications of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in EFL Classroom." Tefla Journal (Teaching English as Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics Journal) 7, no. 1 (2025): 1–8. https://doi.org/10.35747/tefla.v7i1.1340.

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The study is proposed due to the fact that the discussion on Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in EFL settings remains limited in Indonesia. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis covers the notions of relativity and determinism in language and has had a profound impact on language, culture, and education. It assumes that the structure of one's mother tongue may strongly influence or entirely determine the worldview of the learner. Because it focuses on issues of language competence and language acquisition, it can also have heavy implications for EFL, especially language teaching methods and strategies. It can emer

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Hyde, G. M. "The Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis and the Translation Muddle." Translation and Literature 2, no. 2 (1993): 3–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/tal.1993.2.2.3.

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Joseph, John E. "The immediate sources of the ‘Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis’." Historiographia Linguistica 23, no. 3 (1996): 365–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.23.3.07jos.

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Summary A scholarly consensus traces the roots of the ‘Sapir-Whorf hypothesis’ to German language theory of the late 18th to early 19th century, which connects the ‘inner form’ of a language with the potential for cultural achievement of the nation that speaks it. This paper attempts to complexify that genealogy by exploring more immediate sources of the idea that one’s native language determines individual and cultural patterns of thought. In the version of this idea held by Herder and Humboldt, called here the ‘magic key’ view, language is seen as embodying the national mind and unfolding in

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Regier, Terry, and Yang Xu. "The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and inference under uncertainty." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 8, no. 6 (2017): e1440. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1440.

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Regier, Terry, and Yang Xu. "The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and inference under uncertainty." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 9, no. 3 (2018): e1464. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1464.

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Li, Jing. "Relationship Between Language and Thought: Linguistic Determinism, Independence, or Interaction?" Journal of Contemporary Educational Research 6, no. 5 (2022): 32–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.26689/jcer.v6i5.3926.

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The relationship between language and thought has long been a topic of great interest in the field of linguistics, especially in psycholinguistics. Herder, Humboldt, Trendelenbury, Sapir, Whorf, Gui Shichun, Lian Shuneng, and Bao Huinan are some of the well-known scholars who have conducted research on the relationship between language and thought. With regard to the relationship between language and thought, there are three main viewpoints. The first group of scholars, represented by Sapir and Whorf, supports linguistic determinism. Some scholars believe that language and thought are mutually

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Mei, Andy Lingxi. "How Does Language Influence Our Minds? From a Linguistics Perspective." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 42, no. 1 (2024): 205–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/42/20240840.

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The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which was first proposed by linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf in the early 20th century, is currently the most widely accepted theory of neurolinguistics. It makes the argument that language influences cognition and perception, i.e., that people's basic worldviews vary depending on the language they use. Their hypothesis, sometimes referred to as "linguistic relativity," contends that a language's lexicon and structure affect perception. This claim has been disputed on a number of different grounds.Specifically, the hypothesis is composed of two differen

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Jalilova, Gulchekhra Makhmudjonovna Djalilov Ma'rufjon. "THE LINGUOCULTURAL APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF THE LITERARY TEXT." EURASIAN JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH 3, no. 4 (2023): 205–8. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7857704.

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Language is a dynamic set of visual, auditory, or tactile symbols of communication. Definitely language is one of the most important phenomena of culture. Culture in linguistics is described as socially acquired knowledge of the world, as well as attitudes towards it. The power of language to reflect culture and influence thinking was first proposed by an American linguist and anthropologist, Edward Sapir (1884–1939), and his student, Benjamin Whorf (1897–1941). The <strong>Sapir–Whorf hypothesis </strong>stated that the way we think and view the world is determined by our la

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Kang, Sungkwan. "Adaptation of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in Extensive Reading." Journal of Humanities and Social sciences 21 12, no. 2 (2021): 2383–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.22143/hss21.12.2.168.

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SAUER, WERNER. "A NOTE ON ?PLATO'S REASONING AND THE SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS?" Metaphilosophy 16, no. 2-3 (1985): 235–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9973.1985.tb00168.x.

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Mhaiskar, Rahul Naibharosa. "MULTILINGUALISM: A LINGUISTIC DETERMINISM PERSPECTIVE ON ONE ARRANGED MURDER." Journal of English Literature and Linguistic Studies 3, no. 2 (2025): 56. https://doi.org/10.26858/jells.v3i2.71030.

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This paper explores the intersection of linguistic determinism and multilingualism in Chetan Bhagat’s One Arranged Murder, a novel set in the multicultural landscape of contemporary India. Drawing on the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, it examines how the integration of Punjabi and Hindi within an English narrative shapes character development, cultural authenticity, and the representation of Indian multilingual identity. Bhagat’s use of vernacular terms, food references, and kinship expressions reflects the sociolinguistic diversity of India and enriches the narrative with cultural nuance. Code-mixin

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Yang, Liu, and Luo Shan. "The Non-equivalence of Language-Value between Chinese and American Cultures Based on the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis." Scholars International Journal of Linguistics and Literature 5, no. 5 (2022): 185–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.36348/sijll.2022.v05i05.006.

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The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis advocates the ontology of language, arguing that language affects and even determines human thinking to some extent. In view of the fact that human thinking is abstract and intangible, and that values are the soul of the way of thinking, this paper compares the three sets of non-equivalent phenomena between Chinese and American languages and values. As a result, it can be exemplified that language cannot determine or influence values to a certain extent, that is, language cannot determine or influence people's thinking to a certain extent, thus revealing the irration

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Ohia, Ben-Fred. "A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Ogba Proverbs as Tools for Cohesion." International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics 6, no. 3 (2023): 55–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.52589/ijlll-a56ncm2f.

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Sociolinguistics means many things to different people. It is a field that studies the relationship between the users of language and the social structures in which they live. “A sociolinguistic analysis of Ogba proverbs” focuses on the study of Ogba proverbs, exploring the sociolinguistic aspects. Its aim is to explore and analyse Ogba proverbs from the sociolinguistic perspective in the context of English as a second language in Nigeria. This will go a long way to offer a sociolinguistic insight to the contributions of Ogba language, culture and way of life. The data for the study were colle

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Syahrin, Alfi. "Culture Repertoire in Expressive Written Language : Study of Hypothesis of Edward Sapir and Benyamin Lee Whorf." Budapest International Research and Critics in Linguistics and Education (BirLE) Journal 1, no. 1 (2018): 23–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/birle.v1i1.80.

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Language, culture, and mind are closely related, each of these extracts reflects one another. The relationship between language, culture and mind of speakers is a basic idea of Sapir and Whorf's theories and hypotheses. Language politeness that is rooted in the splash of the cultural values of the speaking community, including can be seen from the packaging of the information structure as outlined in the sentence of a language. The construction of different clauses grammatically packs different information structures and politeness values. The way of thinking between cultures as outlined in a

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Imai, Mutsumi. "Rethinking the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Role of language in shaping thought." Japanese journal of psychology 71, no. 5 (2000): 415–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.71.415.

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Koerner, E. F. Konrad. "The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: A Preliminary History and a Bibliographical Essay." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 2, no. 2 (1992): 173–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlin.1992.2.2.173.

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Павленко and D. Pavlenko. "Hypothesis of Linguistic Relativity and Cross-cultural Communication." Modern Communication Studies 5, no. 6 (2016): 33–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/22776.

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The article addresses cross-cultural communication from the standpoint of the theory of linguistic relativity. The author gives a historical survey of the emergence and development of approaches considering the correlation between language and thinking and goes on to analyze the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Guided by the idea that language is an open system, and hence possesses a number of creative and compensatory functions, the author concludes that it is possible to work out an effective transformation mechanism which will enable the student to use authentic language models and provide cross-cul

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Reboul, Anne. "Language: Between cognition, communication and culture." Pragmatics and Cognition 20, no. 2 (2012): 295–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.20.2.06reb.

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Everett’s main claim is that language is a “cultural tool”, created by hominids for communication and social cohesion. I examine the meaning of the expression “cultural tool” in terms of the influence of language on culture (i.e. the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) or of the influence of culture on language (Everett’s hypothesis). I show that these hypotheses are not well-supported by evidence and that language and languages, rather than being “cultural tools” as wholes are rather collections of tools used in different language games, some cultural or social, some cognitive. I conclude that the coinci

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Brown, A. M., D. T. Lindsey, R. S. Rambeau, and H. A. Shamp. "Visual search for colors as a test of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis." Journal of Vision 9, no. 8 (2010): 366. http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/9.8.366.

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Hoosain, Rumjahn. "Language, Orthography and Cognitive Processes: Chinese Perspectives for the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis." International Journal of Behavioral Development 9, no. 4 (1986): 507–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016502548600900407.

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The traditional approach to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis looks at language and categorically different perception or interpretation of the environment. Another aspect of linguistic relativity relates language to the process of cognition itself, including the ease or facility of cognitive processes. With particular reference to the Chinese language and its unique orthography, some evidence for language-related differences in the manner of information processing is reviewed. These include visual form perception, manipulation of numbers, and memory versus manipulation and elaboration of verbal info

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Maria, Castaldo. "«Per questo la si chiamò Babele». Genealogia del relativismo linguistico." Aura, no. 1 (June 15, 2020): 29–36. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10575614.

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The formulation of the linguistic relativity hypothesis is attributed to Benjamin Lee Whorf, who developed the theories of his mentor Edward Sapir. Language would be one of the main tools through which our minds shape and categorize empirical reality, thus structuring the mental universe of the speaker. The most fascinating part of his work is undoubtedly found in the comparison between SAE and Hopi language, spoken by a Native American tribe currently living on a reservation in Arizona.

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ADEBAYO, Akinsanya Atchrimi. "Language as a Means for Communication and Cultural Reality Disclosure: Exploring the Nexus between Language and Culture." Elsevier Journal of Humanities, Communication and Technology Studies 2, no. 2 (2024): 1–8. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12174479.

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Language serves as a fundamental tool for communication, intricately intertwined with culture in its expression and reception. This paper delves into the symbiotic relationship between language and cultural reality, exploring how language encapsulates and expresses cultural nuances. It begins by examining the nature of language, its inherent characteristics, and its role as a communication device. Through various linguistic theories, it navigates the multifaceted functions of language in societal interactions. Furthermore, the paper elucidates the profound link between communication, language,

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Iyiola, Amos Damilare. "Language As A Tool For Communication And Cultural Reality Disclosure: Exploring The Nexus Between Language And Culture." International Journal of Humanities and Communication Studies 4, no. 1 (2024): 104–16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11123892.

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Language serves as a fundamental tool for communication, intricately intertwined with culture in its expression and reception. This paper delves into the symbiotic relationship between language and cultural reality, exploring how language encapsulates and expresses cultural nuances. It begins by examining the nature of language, its inherent characteristics, and its role as a communication device. Through various linguistic theories, it navigates the multifaceted functions of language in societal interactions. Furthermore, the paper elucidates the profound link between communication, language,

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Fabrega, Horacio. "Language, Culture and the Neurobiology of Pain: A Theoretical Exploration." Behavioural Neurology 2, no. 4 (1989): 235–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1989/407435.

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Language and culture, as conceptualized in traditional anthropology, may have an important influence on pain and brain-behavior relations. The paradigm case for the influence of language and culture on perception and cognition is stipulated in the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis which has been applied to phenomena “external” to the individual. In this paper, the paradigm is applied to information the person retrieves from “inside” his body; namely, “noxious” stimuli which get registered in consciousness as pain.

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Krohn, Franklin B. "Improving Business Ethics with the Sapir-Whorf-Korzybski Hypothesis in Business Communication Classes." Journal of Education for Business 69, no. 6 (1994): 354–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08832323.1994.10117713.

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Cibelli, Emily, Yang Xu, Joseph L. Austerweil, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Terry Regier. "The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Probabilistic Inference: Evidence from the Domain of Color." PLOS ONE 11, no. 7 (2016): e0158725. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158725.

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Cuțitaru, Laura Carmen. "Language and Outer Space." Human and Social Studies 7, no. 1 (2018): 80–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/hssr-2018-0006.

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Abstract The 2016 much acclaimed American sci-fi movie Arrival is based on (what is in reality an extension of) the so-called “Sapir-Whorf” hypothesis, a linguistic theory set forth in the first half of the 20th century, according to which one’s native language dictates the way in which one perceives reality. By taking into account the latest in human knowledge, this paper tries to provide arguments as to why such a claim works wonderfully in fiction, but not in science.

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Hartono, Hartono, Suparto Suparto, and Ahdi Hassan. "Language: a ‘mirror’ of the culture and its application English language teaching." Linguistics and Culture Review 5, no. 1 (2021): 93–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/lingcure.v5n1.835.

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This article is intended to highlight the linguistic principle proposed by anthropological linguists, “Language is a mirror of the culture.” The purpose of study attempts to explore foreign language teaching and learning from the perspective of language shapes thought and to improve language learning through a cross a cross-cultural communication. The first part of this article, the linguistic principle, is reflected in the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis or the Whorfian hypothesis briefly highlighted. Second part focuses on the practical use of the Whorfian hypothesis for teaching English as a foreign

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Uwasomba, Blessing Ugochi. "The aesthetic analysis of idiomatic expressions in Amaụzari Igbo: A socio-cultural approach". Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies 3, № 1 (2023): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.57040/jllls.v3i1.384.

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Idiomatic expressions are useful tools for communicating a great deal of meaning in different languages. The purpose and the objective of this study are to examine the aesthetic nature of idiomatic expressions and to illustrate how Igbo people use idiomatic expressions in discourses. This study takes a socio-cultural approach to how words in the language are used in oral expressions for entertainment and peaceful discussions that bind the Amaụzari people together. Amauzari is a town in Isiala Mbano local government area of Imo State, Nigeria. The study used a sample population of over hundred

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Lee, Penny. "Language in Thinking and Learning: Pedagogy and the New Whorfian Framework." Harvard Educational Review 67, no. 3 (1997): 430–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/haer.67.3.m2q0530x2r574117.

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In the field of linguistics, the ideas of Benjamin Whorf continue to generate as much controversy as they did when they first became known more than half a century ago. This continued interest in Whorf's theories about relationship between language, mind, and experience has now extended beyond the realm of linguistics. Today, anthropologists, cognitive psychologists, and even education researchers are rediscovering Whorf's insights with enthusiasm. In this article, Penny Lee argues that Whorf's theory complex, which includes the linguistic relativity principle (sometimes also referred to as th

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Gorlée, Dinda L. "Kenneth L. Pike and science fiction." Semiotica 2015, no. 207 (2015): 217–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2015-0043.

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AbstractKenneth L. Pike’s tagmemic explanation of his etic-emic equivalence corresponds to the notion of “approximate” translation. According to a weaker version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Pike’s cross-cultural and multilingual perspective of Bible translation approximates the duality and triadicity of Peirce’s immediate/emotional, dynamical/energetic, and final/logical interpretants. Pike’s astronautical examples of the artificial language Kabala-X translated into English and the science fiction story of the Earthmen who invaded Mars are fictional and creative artifacts of human-alien cry

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Li, Jingbai. "A Comparative Study on The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and Quine's Holistic View of Language." Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences 28 (April 1, 2024): 407–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/1hxxgd38.

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The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and Quine's holistic view of language are two of the most important philosophical theories of language in the 20th century. Despite having separate fields of study, they are conceptually and methodologically identical. Despite the two theories' extensive histories of discussion, there are few studies that compare them. In this thesis, the general framework of the two theories is described, and the coherence of the two theories is shown through comparison studies that highlight how the behaviorist and relativist tendencies of the two are similar. This coherent analysi

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Yousef, Tawfiq. "Translation and the Cultural Dimension A Postcolonial-Poststructuralist Approach." International Journal of Arabic-English Studies 3, no. 1 (2002): 105–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.33806/ijaes2000.3.1.8.

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Writing in the early twentieth century the American linguist and anthropologist Edward Sapir put forward what has come to be known as the " Relativity Hypothesis" , which postulates that every language imposes on its speakers a different world view. What follows from this hypothesis is that intercultural communication is hard if not impossible. As Sapir puts it: No two languages are sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The world in which different societies live are distinct worlds not merely the same world with different labels attached.(Sapir 1956: 6

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Khosroshahi, Fatemeh. "Penguins don't care, but women do: A social identity analysis of a Whorfian problem." Language in Society 18, no. 4 (1989): 505–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500013889.

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ABSTRACTThe Sapir–Whorf hypothesis is often implicitly assumed to be true independent of its empirical status. Feminist attempts to eliminate the generic he must assume that language somehow affects thought, since there is no intrinsic harm in the word itself. Research to date has, in fact, shown that generic he tends to suggest a male referent in the mind of the reader. This study asks whether people's interpretation of a generic sentence varies depending on whether or not they have followed feminist proposals and reformed their own language. Fifty-five college students read sex-indefinite pa

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Lyon, Gordon. "Language and Perceptual Experience." Philosophy 74, no. 4 (1999): 515–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819199000650.

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This article is a sequel to ‘The Experience of Perceptual Familiarity’, published in Philosophy in January 1996. There it was argued that the experience of familiarity of appearance consists in awareness of ease of perception. A successful prediction of this hypothesis was that this experience will be absent if the familiar stimulus is perceptually simple. The new paper examines a series of experiments on recognition-memory for colours, often thought to confirm the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, that language influences fundamental cognitive and perceptual abilities. I argue that the hypothesis of Pe

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Wenzel, Christian Helmut. "Reasoning with Zhuangzi." Journal of Chinese Philosophy 44, no. 1-2 (2017): 71–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15406253-0440102008.

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In this essay I closely look at dialogues from the Daoist text Zhuangzi and examine their modes of reasoning. The observations, comments, and dialogues are often witty, surprising, and puzzling. Sometimes they are mystic and difficult to understand. But how “reasonable” are the answers given in these dialogues? I will focus on a dialogue from chapter 17, called “Autumn Floods.” I will closely follow and analyze the arguments and their twists. In particular, I will question the use of the word “Dao.” I will also place this analysis in broader comparative frameworks regarding rationality, the Sa

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Dong, Tian, Yating Yating, and Tao Tao. "Negative Impact of Chinese Thinking Mode on Cross-Cultural Business English Writing." Cross-Currents: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal on Humanities & Social Sciences 5, no. 10 (2019): 305–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.36344/ccijhss.2019.v05i10.003.

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With the prosperity of various world trade organizations, the ability of cross-cultural business English writing is becoming more and more critical. As one form of language output, cross-cultural business English writing is profoundly affected by huge differences existing in the way of thinking between Chinese and westerners. This article, combining with Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and Kaplan theory, mainly focuses on studying the negative effects of Chinese thinking mode by analyzing the common mistakes in daily business English writing from three levels of vocabulary, syntax, discourse and then p

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Santos, Jorge Alejandro, Alba Massolo, and Santiago Durante. "Logical pluralism and linguistic relativism:." Filosofia Unisinos 25, no. 2 (2024): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.4013/fsu.2024.252.04.

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This paper aims to connect two debates about the relation among language, reasoning and thought that belong to different theoretical and disciplinary fields, but that are closely linked. On the one hand, the philosophical debate about logical pluralism. And, on the other hand, the linguistic debate around the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. We propose a hypothesis compatible with a version of logical pluralism and linguistic relativism that makes it possible to explain the differences between thoughts expressed in different languages. This hypothesis, at the same time, supports the possibility of unde

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Skerrett, Delaney Michael. "Can the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis save the planet? Lessons from cross-cultural psychology for critical language policy." Current Issues in Language Planning 11, no. 4 (2010): 331–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2010.534236.

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Mehler, Alexander, Olga Pustylnikov, and Nils Diewald. "Geography of social ontologies: Testing a variant of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in the context of Wikipedia." Computer Speech & Language 25, no. 3 (2011): 716–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2010.05.006.

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Noletto, Israel Alves Corrêa, and Sebastião Alves Teixeira Lopes. "Heptapod B and whorfianism. Language extrapolation in science fiction." Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture 42, no. 1 (2020): e51769. http://dx.doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v42i1.51769.

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The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that the language someone speaks shapes their thoughts. Although this view may have fallen into disrepute in the field of linguistics, its influence, the Whorfianism, has been the number one showcase in science fiction works that somehow approach language, and more specifically, invented languages. This paper uses Ted Chiang’s award-winning novella Story of your life (1998) and its filmic adaptation Arrival (2016) directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Eric Heisserer as a case study to investigate this literary phenomenon. The considerations of Guy Deutsc

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Papagiannis, Lampros I. "Language as a Means of Philosophy." Philosophical Inquiry 43, no. 3 (2019): 38–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/philinquiry2019433/418.

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This paper attempts an investigation to the relationship between the Analects by Confucius (the Lun-Yu), which contains the very core of the philosophy of Confucius and the Chinese language in terms of describing the degree to which the structure of the Chinese language has been beneficial for the evolution of philosophical thought. The idea investigated has its root to the individuality of the Chinese language, which is differently structured compared to the Indo-European languages. Therefore we set to explore how it became possible for this particularity to give birth to original philosophic

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Kadarisman, A. Effendi. "Linguistic Relativity, Cultural Relativity, and Foreign Language Teaching." TEFLIN Journal - A publication on the teaching and learning of English 16, no. 1 (2015): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.15639/teflinjournal.v16i1/1-25.

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Every language is assumed to be unique, structurally and culturally. Taking this neo-Bloomfieldian assumption at the outset, this paper first points out the inadequacy of sentence grammars for foreign language teaching. Toward this end, the paper further argues for the necessity of understanding linguistic and cultural relativity. Linguistic relativity, or better known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, suggests that the way we perceive and categorize reality is partly determined by the language we speak; and cultural relativity implies that verbalization of concepts in a particular language is of

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Leszman, Milena. "Friend or Foe? Communicating with AI in Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun." Forum Filologiczne Ateneum, no. 1(12)2024 (December 31, 2024): 79–90. https://doi.org/10.36575/2353-2912/1(12)2024-05.

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The paper analyses Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Klara and the Sun in the context of language of communication between Artificial Intelligence and human beings. Klara is a humanoid robot who functions as an Artificial Friend, whose role is to assist children in their daily life. Yet, Klara exceeds human expectations and learns to love the girl she works for. The analysis focuses on the nature of communication in dystopian fiction and the challenges it involves. The author conducts a comparative analysis of newspeak and its equivalences in other dystopian works. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Foucault's theo

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Chistanov, M. N. "A pragmatic turn in the philosophy of language in the context of problems of preservation and development of minority languages." Siberian Journal of Philosophy 21, no. 2 (2023): 17–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2541-7517-2023-21-2-17-25.

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By the beginning of the twenty-first century essentialism is giving way to the constructivist paradigm in the field of social sciences and humanities. However, linguistic essentialism survived all the shocks and received a classical form in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativism. The application of this hypothesis to the analysis of linguistic communities puts majority and minority languages in different positions: it makes strong languages even stronger, and simply kills small ones. The task of preserving minority languages in programs built using this methodology turns out to be

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