Journal articles: 'Sapir-Whorf hypothesis'

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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 (February 1, 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 language-thought dimensions. Whorf postulated that language shapes thoughts while Sapir projected that language is in the grip of thought. The literature of the Vedic Canon has also logically and systematically projected the multiple dimensional, but agglutinative relationships between language and thought. The hymns of the Rig Veda, myths from Brahmanas, and the lore from Upanishads unravel, interpret, and enrich the language-thought interconnection in such a way that the Vedic literature remains as the classical version of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis written in Sanskrit. In this regard, the Vedic literature and Sapir-Whorf hypothesis play the same tune of music in different lyres. The present paper attempts to reveal this point of unity in diversity between the two seemingly diverse schools of thoughts—classical Vedic literature and modern linguistic theory of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Being the qualitative research, this paper explores, interprets, and correlates the theoretical concepts, ideas, and phenomena from the Vedic literature and Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

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

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Hyde, G. M. "The Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis and the Translation Muddle." Translation and Literature 2, no. 2 (September 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 (January 1, 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 line with the Romantic (Hegelian) theory of history. But there is another version, here dubbed ‘metaphysical garbage’, which envisions language developing within an evolutionary view of history and introducing obstacles to logical thought. This view was a commonplace of Cambridge analytical philosophy (Whitehead & Russell) and Viennese logical positivism (Carnap). A key Cambridge-Vienna link was C. K. Ogden, whose series included books by the leaders of both groups, and whose own book The Meaning of Meaning (with I. A. Richards, 1923) – the subtitle of which begins The influence of language on thought – synthesizes many of their positions. Sapir’s positive review of this book marks a turning point from his view of language as a cultural product (as in Language, 1921) to a sort of template around which the rest of culture is structured, as in his “The Status of Linguistics as a Science” (1929). This paper, like others of Sapir’s writings from 1923 on, takes up the rhetoric of metaphysical garbage almost exclusively. Whorf, drawn by Sapir to structuralism from originally mystical interests in language, likewise takes up the ‘garbage’ line, interweaving it with ‘magic key’ only in the two years between Sapir’s death and his own. Other influences on Whorf s views are examined, including Korzybski’s General Semantics, to which he has intriguing connections.

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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 (April 28, 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 (April 15, 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 (May 30, 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 independent. However, others believe that language and thought are inseparable. Beginning from Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and their theory of linguistic determinism and linguistic relativity, this article agrees with the influence of language over thought but refutes the extreme viewpoint of linguistic determinism from several points, proving the independence and mutual influence of language and thought. This article finally concludes that the preferred relationship between language and thought should be that they are independent but interactive.

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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 (March 14, 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 different parts called Linguistic Diversity and Linguistic Influence on Thought, which argue that languages have fundamental differences from each other and that the differences between individual languages create cognitive differences within people. With regards to the latter cognitive section of the theory, there are two key tiers that it is divided into. The first tier proposes a universal "rock bottom" of human consciousness, where everyone must share a basic level of perception. The second tier delves into the semantic details of various languages, asserting that these linguistic nuances contribute to different interpretations layered atop the universal foundation. Moreover, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has been even further bisected into two distinct versions depending on how strongly they convey the idea of linguistic relativity, with a strong version arguing that native language completely alters our perspective and a weak version that only suggests a weak connection between the two.

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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 (April 30, 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 (April 1985): 235–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9973.1985.tb00168.x.

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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 (May 21, 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 irrationality of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. Through in-depth analysis of the differences between Chinese and American values as well as language characteristics, the cultural concepts behind language can be more deeply understood, which is conducive to improving the awareness of cross-cultural communication and enhancing cross-cultural communication ability; on the other hand, the accuracy and authenticity of language selection can also be improved so as to ensure the reliability in the translation practice.

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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 (October 4, 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 collected orally through interviews of competent Ogba first language speakers and translated to the English language for analysis. The qualitative and descriptive research designs were adopted for the analysis. In all, twenty (20) proverbs were analysed using Dell Hyme’s Ethnography of Communication Theory as the major analytical framework with insights from Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. This is because of the relevance of Dell Hyme’s Speaking which accounts for such sociolinguistic variables as setting, scene, participants, act sequence, instrumentality and genre as is evidenced in the data, and how the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis allows this paper to relate its data to aspects of Ogba worldview and culture. This paper establishes that Ogba proverbs are relevant to both oral and written communications within and outside the Ogba environment. They are employed to embellish, spice and beautify oral and written communications commonly but proudly exploited in Ogba people’s interpersonal relations through conversations. On typology, Adedimeji’s (2003) typological classification is applied for the classification of the data into types. It was discovered that Speaking allows for the comprehensive understanding of the data for this paper which is as a result of its explicit and analytic potential, while Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis shows aspects of Ogba Culture that manifest in Ogba proverbs.

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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 (November 28, 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 writing will be different in the way it is delivered. The purpose of this study is to describe culture in expressive writing, is seen from the hypothesis of Edwar Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf.

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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 (December 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 (December 17, 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-cultural communication.

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Reboul, Anne. "Language: Between cognition, communication and culture." Pragmatics and Cognition 20, no. 2 (December 31, 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 coincidence between language and culture is due to the fact that both originate from human nature.

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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 (March 23, 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 (December 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 information. These differences have implications for cognitive development as well as cross-cultural testing and comparison.

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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 (August 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 (July 19, 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 (March 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 (June 11, 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 language (TEFL), especially cross culture understanding (CCU) and the English teaching for specific purposes (ESP).

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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, no. 1 (March 16, 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 men and women for her data collection. The aesthetic characteristics of idiomatic expressions are exhibited and appreciated especially during cultural ceremonies that attract a lot of people to the villages in Amaụzari. Data for this study were collected from the primary source. We collected data through participant observations of discourse contexts. The study used over hundred men and women as the sample population for data collection. The Theoretical framework we adopted in the study is Linguistic relativity which is known as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis shows that the meaning of utterances is from cultural conventions for how the words are used and interpreted. The study discovered that the appropriate use of idiomatic expression is a mark of pragmatic competence. In conclusion, the study shows that the characteristics of idiomatic expressions contribute to the peaceful existence of people according to their cultural backgrounds.

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Lee, Penny. "Language in Thinking and Learning: Pedagogy and the New Whorfian Framework." Harvard Educational Review 67, no. 3 (September 1, 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 the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis), has important implications for education, particularly with respect to the role of language in teaching and thinking. From the theory complex, Lee draws a new Whorfian framework that provides some starting points for educators to reflect on language-mind-experience relationships, and, ultimately, to improve their classroom practice.

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Gorlée, Dinda L. "Kenneth L. Pike and science fiction." Semiotica 2015, no. 207 (October 1, 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 cryptography leading, as argued here, to false semio-logical reasoning.

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Yousef, Tawfiq. "Translation and the Cultural Dimension A Postcolonial-Poststructuralist Approach." International Journal of Arabic-English Studies 3, no. 1 (January 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: 69) Likewise, Benjamin Lee Whorf (1940) asserted that his experience of American and Hopi culture suggested to him that the cultures and thought processes were markedly different because their languages were so different. This led him to establish what he called the "linguistic relativity principle" , which states that users of markedly different grammars are pointed by their grammars toward different types of observations and different evaluations of externally similar acts of observation, and hence are not equivalent as observers but must arrive at somewhat different views of the world. (p. 221) In other words, language was viewed as having a direct influence on thougnt; thought is in the grip of language. .

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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 analysis leads to the root of the commonality of the two theories: the spirit of thoroughgoing empiricism. The comparative study of the two theories can also portray the development trend and characteristics of the philosophy of language in the 20th century, so as to have a more comprehensive understanding of the development of the philosophy of language after the "linguistic turn.".

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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 (December 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 paragraphs involving either the generic he, he or she, or they, and made drawings to represent the mental images evoked by what they read. The sex of the figure drawn was the dependent variable. Students' term papers were used to determine whether their own language was “reformed” or “traditional.” He was found to be least likely to evoke female referents, he or she most likely, and they in between. However, regardless of the pronoun, men drew more male and fewer female pictures than women. Moreover, whereas men did not differ in their imagery, whether their language was reformed or traditional, women did. Traditional-language women had more male images than female. Reformed-language women showed the opposite. Results are discussed in terms of the theory of social identity (Tajfel 1981), and it is concluded that the weak, correlational form of Whorf's thesis applies to women, the group that initiated the reform in the first place. (Gender and language, pronouns, social psychology of language, Sapir–Whorf hypothesis)

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Lyon, Gordon. "Language and Perceptual Experience." Philosophy 74, no. 4 (October 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 Perceptual Familiarity provides a more plausible, non-Whorfian explanation of the results. Language is not influencing non-linguistic perception here, since, as the hypothesis is able to explain, recognition-memory for colours is itself invariably mediated by language.

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Wenzel, Christian Helmut. "Reasoning with Zhuangzi." Journal of Chinese Philosophy 44, no. 1-2 (March 3, 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 Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and Western traditions.

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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 (October 19, 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 puts forward countermeasures for improving the ability of cross-cultural business English writing and communication.

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Santos, Jorge Alejandro, Alba Massolo, and Santiago Durante. "Logical pluralism and linguistic relativism:." Filosofia Unisinos 25, no. 2 (July 26, 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 understanding and even translating different logical and linguistic variants. From a position akin to logical expressivism, we claim that there exists a proto-logic underlying all natural languages. The minimal logical operators proper of this proto-logic can be made explicit in a precise way in different formal systems. This gives rise to logical pluralism. We also offered an empirically informed philosophical argument in favor of this hypothesis.

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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 (November 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 (July 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 (April 14, 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 Deutscher (2010), Stockwell (2006) and Ria Cheyne (2008), as well as the authors’ own viewpoints, are vitally important for that. The result is a speculative and comparative analysis that contributes to a better understanding of the frequent connexion of science fiction, glossopoesis and Whorfianism.

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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 philosophical ideas and thus some comparison examples are used to the Greek language. In other words may we assume that the way one speaks defines the way one thinks according to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?

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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 (September 3, 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 often culturally conditioned. As related to the field of foreign language teaching, relativity across languages and cultures presupposes contrastive analysis in a very broad senses. Thus, pointing out differences in language structures and cultural conventions should lead students to better acquisition of linguistic and cultural sensitivity.

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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 (December 20, 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 impossible. In our humble opinion, two research paradigms are more adequate for the purpose. One of them is associated with the pragmatic turn in the analytical philosophy of language and represents a transition from the analysis of the structure of the language itself to the analysis of the conditions of communication, taking into account all the sociocultural components of this process. The second methodology is Erving Goff man’s concept of social face and performative behavior.

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Lindsey, D., and A. Brown. "Color difference scaling at the blue-green color category boundary as a test of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis." Journal of Vision 9, no. 8 (March 23, 2010): 340. http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/9.8.340.

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Mokhtar, Aida. "Islamic and Western Ethics in Advertising." IIUM JOURNAL OF HUMAN SCIENCES 1, no. 2 (December 29, 2019): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.31436/ijohs.v1i2.79.

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Ethical advertising and Islamic advertising appear dissimilar as the former refers to Western ethics and the latter Islamic ethics. The question of whether ethical advertising should be used in place of Islamic advertising is raised in the paper. This discussion is significant as selecting an apt concept for advertising to Muslims is essential. This is supported by Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that claims a person’s conception of the world is dictated by language. When the concept of Islamic advertising is used, Islamic ethics and not Western ethics is brought to the foreground. The article springs a surprise of whether there is indeed the demarcation between Western and Islamic ethics or not. Western categories of normative ethics have been used by Muslim scholars with the difference being the prerequisite for adapting Western ethics using the main sources of the Qur’an and the Sunnah from the Islamic perspective.

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Zygmunt, Tomasz. "Language and Culture Interconnectedness." Language, Culture, Politics. International Journal 1 (December 9, 2021): 117–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.54515/lcp.2021.1.117-126.

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Numerous criticism directed at the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis called forth the viewing of the hypothesis through the prism of language and culture interconnection and check to what extent the linguistic determinism is an applicable and useful tool in foreign language studies. For this reason, the present paper carries out a discussion to construct a somewhat modified version of the linguistic determinism idea by adding to the language–culture unit a third element such as expressiveness. To make the proposed here version of linguistic determinism comprehensible, it has been decided to describe and explain the notions of language, culture, and expressiveness to make them clear and digestible for the purpose of the present discussion. In the course of the discussion, strengthened by quotations from the literature, the main stress is put on the language-culture interconnectedness viewed as the key element determining successful language studies, especially in the foreign languages domain. Finally, the attention is directed at the role of creativity and expressiveness as factors responsible for the level of the language user’s competence, which, in turn, is viewed as creative communicative competence.

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Akhtar, Sumaira, Fatima Zafar Baig, Muhammad Zammad Aslam, Talia Khan, Sunbal Tayyaba, and Zafar Iqbal. "Code-Switching and Identity: A Sociolinguistic Study of Hanif’s Novel Our Lady of Alice Bhatti." International Journal of English Linguistics 10, no. 1 (January 2, 2020): 364. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v10n1p364.

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The present research explores the features of code-switching in Hanif’s (2011) English fictional novel Our Lady of Alice Bhatti. The research explores code-switching by applying the Whorfian Hypothesis (Linguistic Relativity and Determinism) through textual analysis of Hanif’s novel (2011). One of the distinguishing features of the novel is the use of two distinct languages (English and Urdu) which majorly cause the implementation of various features of code-switching and code-mixing. The researchers have employed the qualitative research approach during data analysis. The study examines how language influences ideas and identity with the use of code-switching. A comprehensive study or analysis of the relevant literature has also presented in a comprehensive way leading towards a theoretical framework of preferred Whorfian Hypothesis (Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) in the field of sociolinguistics. The results and findings of the also proves that the writer of the novel consciously/unconsciously utilizes the technique of code-switching of code-mixing to highlight/promote the native/local identity (ies) and cultural values through the code-mixed language. The study would be helpful for the reader to develop an appropriate understanding of code-switching in language varieties.

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Chakravartty, Avaniendra. "Need for Newer Perspectives on Violence: A Subaltern View." Social Inquiry: Journal of Social Science Research 5, no. 1 (December 31, 2023): 29–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sijssr.v5i1.65408.

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This article explains the intricate relationship between violence and health, aiming to transcend the conventional and restricted perspectives through which violence is typically perceived and conceptualized. The limitation regarding the conceptualisation of violence, by researchers, when the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is taken into consideration, leads us to think that those researching violence and health are limited to the WHO definition and conceptualisation of violence due to various historical processes of knowledge production and flows, which leads to a ‘violence of closure’. I follow a reflexive approach and identify several types of violence from which I focus on cognitive violence, epistemic violence, ontological violence, and neoliberal violence. Understanding of violence needs to acknowledge that multiple forms of violence overlap entangle and intersect in a rhizomatic manner. Only sticking to the WHO definition of violence leads to a condition that creates a condition of ‘violence of closure’ that neglects various systemic and structural processes through which violence is experienced at the individual micro-level.

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Vostrikova, Ekaterina V., and Petr S. Kusliy. "Language as a Dynamic System." Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 57, no. 1 (2020): 110–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/eps202057110.

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In this article, we examine the key ideas of Wilhelm von Humboldt about language and their relevance to the contemporary research in the field of linguistics. In his works, N. Chomsky describes Humboldt as a key predecessor of the generative approach. The authors discuss the concrete aspects of Humboldt’s influence on generative linguistics drawing special attention to his notion of Form. The authors also observe that Humboldt’s works also contain statements about the deep differences that exist between different languages, as well as statements that different languages can form different pictures of the world. These ideas resonate with philosophical ideas about linguistic relativity (the famous Sapir – Whorf hypothesis), which are incompatible with generative linguistics. The authors try to reconcile an apparent contradiction by appealing to two different perspectives on language that they call the dynamic and the static one. They provide arguments in favor of the former and explore existing arguments against the later, which is associated with the aforementioned hypothesis. The authors conclude by pointing out that Humboldt’s legacy has so many facets that it introduces to incompatible views on language each of which had a serious impact on the studies of language in the 20th century.

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Koerner, E. F. Konrad. "Wilhelm Von Humboldt and North American Ethnolinguistics." Historiographia Linguistica 17, no. 1-2 (January 1, 1990): 111–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.17.1-2.10koe.

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Summary Noam Chomsky’s frequent references to the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt during the 1960s produced a considerable revival of interest in this 19th-century scholar in North America. This paper demonstrates that there has been a long-standing influence of Humboldt’s ideas on American linguistics and that no ‘rediscovery’ was required. Although Humboldt’s first contacts with North-American scholars goes back to 1803, the present paper is confined to the posthumous phase of his influence which begins with the work of Heymann Steinthal (1823–1899) from about 1850 onwards. This was also a time when many young Americans went to Germany to complete their education; for instance William Dwight Whitney (1827–1894) spent several years at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin (1850–1854), and in his writings on general linguistics one can trace Humboldtian ideas. In 1885 Daniel G. Brinton (1837–1899) published an English translation of a manuscript by Humboldt on the structure of the verb in Amerindian languages. A year later Franz Boas (1858–1942) arrived from Berlin soon to establish himself as the foremost anthropologist with a strong interest in native language and culture. From then on we encounter Humboldtian ideas in the work of a number of North American anthropological linguists, most notably in the work of Edward Sapir (1884–1939). This is not only true with regard to matters of language classification and typology but also with regard to the philosophy of language, specifically, the relationship between a particular language structure and the kind of thinking it reflects or determines on the part of its speakers. Humboldtian ideas of ‘linguistic relativity’, enunciated in the writings of Whitney, Brinton, Boas, and others, were subsequently developed further by Sapir’s student Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941). The transmission of the so-called Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis – which still today is attracting interest among cultural anthropologists and social psychologists, not only in North America – is the focus of the remainder of the paper. A general Humboldtian approach to language and culture, it is argued, is still present in the work of Dell Hymes and several of his students.

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OULADIB, Hakima, and Fatine LEMOUALDI. "THE FEMININE GENDER IN LINGUISTICS: IS THERE ANY EGALITARIAN LANGUAGE WITH RESPECT TO MASCULINE?" International Journal of Humanities and Educational Research 05, no. 04 (August 1, 2023): 174–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2757-5403.21.11.

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For several years, the theme of gender has been the subject of debate between several linguists, especially since the revival of feminism, during the second half of the 19th century. By default, the masculine grammatical gender, in French, refers to the male gender, while having a generic value allowing it to designate the female gender as well. Along the same lines, several feminist authors and linguists have revolted in order to promote a non-sexist language as well as an epicene language, eradicating the generic masculine and its stereotype of the superiority of men over women. Following the grammatical rule commonly learned at school which stipulates that "The masculine prevails over the feminine" decreed by several grammarians in the 17th century, we were witnessing a form of linguistic sexism, going as far as pejorative or even sexual connotations. For a few expressions, once transformed into the feminine.. It is in this context of linguistic genre that our present work takes place, relying on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis addressing linguistic relativity, while providing examples concerning the Arabic language as well.

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Kuznetsov, Igor. "Towards Franz Boas’s linguistic views." Voprosy Jazykoznanija, no. 3 (2023): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/0373-658x.2023.3.143-157.

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Franz Boas (1858–1942) is recognized as the founding father not only in modern anthropology (cultural, biological), but also in anthropological linguistics. Starting with geographical and physical studies at several German universities, he later got insterested in the culture and languages of the indigenous peoples of North America. Boas was particularly interested in the role of apperception in language acquisition. Eventually, he transferred the results of his observations on language perception to the wide field of culture, developing the notion of acculturation analogical to apperception. Already the early Boas’s publications contain the origins of the idea of linguistic relativity, which later will be formulated in the shape of the so-called “Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis”. Extremely interesting and original was Boas’s attitude to the concept of phoneme, which was formed precisely during the years of creative activity and the most striking achievements of Boas’s school. Finally, the peculiarities of the fieldwork style of this American scholar, as well as his “analytism” in work on the grammars of Native American languages, certainly influenced the development of descriptive linguistics in general.

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