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Lintz, Jana. "A Positive Look at the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis; How this Effect Affects English." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1355495583.
Full textMachado, Isadora Lima 1987. "Para além das palavras e das coisas = Friedrich W. Nietzsche e as Ciências da Linguagem." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270583.
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Resumo: A partir da perspectiva da História das Idéias Lingüísticas, investigam-se as filiações ao filósofo Friedrich W. Nietzsche (1844-1900) nas Ciências da Linguagem. Perguntando-se sobre os pontos de contato entre as diversas teorias lingüísticas e o pensamento do filósofo, propõe-se a filiação da chamada hipótese Sapir-Whorf à filosofia de Nietzsche. Desse modo, procura-se compreender a constituição das teorias e dos métodos lingüísticos a partir do campo heterogêneo que caracteriza as Ciências da Linguagem. Apresenta-se com esse fim um panorama do problema da linguagem em Nietzsche e, em seguida, defendem-se os graus de consonância e dissonância entre os autores. Desse modo, argumenta-se que Nietzsche é uma condição de possibilidade para o pensamento de E. Sapir e B. Whorf. No jogo entre memória e esquecimento, é sempre lembrado o nome de W. von Humboldt enquanto "precursor" da hipótese. Percebe-se, entretanto, que no gesto epistemológico de "olhar para trás" em busca de bases, muitas vezes os autores, quando "voltam" desse gesto, o fazem já afetados por toda uma gama de outras idéias que modificaram a primeira, e é nesse sentido que se apresenta a filiação da hipótese a Nietzsche
Abstract: As from the point of view of History of Linguistic Ideas, the research investigates the filiations to the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1990) on the Language Sciences. By questioning the contact points between the various linguistic theories and the philosopher's thoughts, the filiation of the so-called Sapir-Whorf hypothesis to Nietzsche's philosophy is proposed. Thus, It seeks the understanding on the linguistic theories and methods constitution, as from the heterogeneous field that characterizes the Language Sciences. In order to do so, it presents an overview on the matter of language at Nietzsche and, thereafter, the levels of consonance and dissonance among the authors are endorsed. Hence, it is defended that Nietzsche represents a condition of possibility for E. Sapir and B. Whorf's reasoning. As in the play-off between memory and forgetfulness, the name of W. von Humboldt is always recalled as the "forerunner" of the hypothesis. It can be perceived, however, that on the epistemological act of "looking back" in search for ground, the authors often "return" from this gesture rather affected by a whole other range of ideas that have, thus, modified the previous ones, and it is in that sense that the hypothesis filiation to Nietzsche presents itself
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Cunha, Adan Phelipe. "A emergência da hipótese do Relativismo Linguístico em Edward Sapir (1884-1939)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8139/tde-12062013-105426/.
Full textThis dissertation had as its objective to outline some factors related to the emergence process of reading the American anthropologist and linguist Edward Sapirs (1884- 1939) papers as one of the proponents of a set of assertions about the nature of natural languages, grouped under the label linguistic relativity, whose debate received much attention from American linguistic anthropologists, during the first half of the twentieth century. It is often said that the linguistic relativity is a hypothesis, which argues that language can shape the perception of reality, thought or culture. Since Sapirs name has been associated with Whorfs, as the label Sapir-Whorf hypothesis indicates, a term widely used today to refer to linguistic relativity, we carried out tracking of some fundamental concepts in this discussion, within the theoretical framework proposed by Sapir, as his conceptions of language, culture and thought, in order to assess the merits of its reception as a relativist. As this research was conducted under the methodology of Linguistic Historiography, we have also sought to rescue the contextual factors in which such theoretical propositions have emanated. Finally, we propose to discuss the setting of the term relativism in the author\'s theoretical horizon, aiming to provide a reading perspective fairly different from the ones proposed currently by numerous handbooks on the History of Linguistics.
Kalden, Wolf Hannes. "Mehrsprachigkeit und die Frage nach der 'doppelten Identität' : ein Diskussionsansatz /." Norderstedt : Books on Demand, 2007. http://d-nb.info/98725541X/04.
Full textCassinadri, Alison. "La propria vita attraverso la lingua degli altri: l'ipotesi Sapir-Whorf in Story of Your Life di Ted Chiang." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2019.
Find full textEngelhardt, Maike. "Generic pronouns and their influence on the speakers' language awareness." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1844.
Full textLowry, Mark Douglas. "Blue is in the Eye of the Beholder: a Cross Cultural Study on Color Perception and Memory." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5360.
Full textSiuda-Krzywicka, Katarzyna. "The modularity of high-level colour processing : evidence from brain damage." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUS352.
Full textWe examined the effects of brain lesions in humans on the interdependences between three modules of cortical colour processing, namely colour perception, naming and object-colour knowledge. We first focused on colour categorisation - a case-in-point of the interplay between perception and language. Reviewed evidence from cognitive development, comparative psychology and cognitive neuroscience hints that colour categorisation originates from neither perception nor language, as assumed by the Nature-Nurture debate. Instead, colour categories may reflect relevant objects in the environment. To assess the causal link between categorization and naming, we investigated a stroke patient, RDS. Despite severe difficulties in naming chromatic colours, due to a left occipito-temporal lesion, RDS’s colour categorisation was relatively spared. Multimodal MRI experiments revealed that the language-perception connectivity is essential for efficient colour naming but not for categorisation. Investigation of object-colour knowledge in the context of RDS’s colour-naming impairment showed that RDS could not link colour perception to neither language nor semantic knowledge. He could not associate a visual colour to a colour name or to the shape of its typical object. Overall, we demonstrated three functional segregations in colour processing: between (1) colour categorisation and colour naming, (2) naming of chromatic and achromatic colours and (3) knowing about coloured objects and knowing about abstract colours. The main purpose of high-level cortical colour mechanisms could be providing sensory and semantic information to guide object-related behaviour, by achieving (1) stable colour perception, (2) relevant colour categories, and (3) joint mental representations of shapes and colours. These neural computations may have been recycled in cultural evolution to isolate colours from objects and label them with names
Blackmore, Ashley. "REVITALIZING LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY: Pedagogical Implications in language teaching." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-17882.
Full textBjörk, Ingrid. "Relativizing linguistic relativity : Investigating underlying assumptions about language in the neo-Whorfian literature." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-8679.
Full textThis work concerns the linguistic relativity hypothesis, also known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which, in its most general form claims that ‘lan-guage’ influences ‘thought’. Past studies into linguistic relativity have treated various aspects of both thought and language, but a growing body of literature has recently emerged, in this thesis referred to as neo-Whorfian, that empirically investigates thought and language from a cross-linguistic perspective and claims that the grammar or lexicon of a particular language influences the speakers’ non-linguistic thought.
The present thesis examines the assumptions about language that underlie this claim and criticizes the neo-Whorfian arguments from the point of view that they are based on misleading notions of language. The critique focuses on the operationalization of thought, language, and culture as separate vari-ables in the neo-Whorfian empirical investigations. The neo-Whorfian stud-ies explore language primarily as ‘particular languages’ and investigate its role as a variable standing in a causal relation to the ‘thought’ variable. Tho-ught is separately examined in non-linguistic tests and found to ‘correlate’ with language.
As a contrast to the neo-Whorfian view of language, a few examples of other approaches to language, referred to in the thesis as sociocultural appro-aches, are reviewed. This perspective on language places emphasis on prac-tice and communication rather than on particular languages, which are vie-wed as secondary representations. It is argued that from a sociocultural per-spective, language as an integrated practice cannot be separated from tho-ught and culture. The empirical findings in the neo-Whorfian studies need not be rejected, but they should be interpreted differently. The findings of linguistic and cognitive diversity reflect different communicational practices in which language cannot be separated from non-language.
Bergdal, Emilia. "Vilken världsbild förmedlar vi till barnen? : En analys av tio barnsånger ur ett genusperspektiv." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-104526.
Full textLuppi, Martina. "Bilinguismo - Come le lingue straniere modificano la percezione della realtà dentro e intorno a sé." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/16072/.
Full textDickey, Zachary R. L. "The Role of Semantics in Prohibiting The Acquisition of a Native-like Semantic Competence: Understanding Why ` Jason Hit Tommy ’ and Why `Tommy Was Hit by Jason ’." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1386932531.
Full textFalsanisi, Giulia. "Linguistic relativity and second language acquisition: can languages affect how we think?" Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/23998/.
Full textHubert, Johannes. "Blaue Bäume unter grünem Himmel?" Master's thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-143442.
Full textDunai, Amber. "Semantic Shift and the Link between Words and Culture." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9785/.
Full textJraissati, Yasmine. "Couleur, culture et cognition : examen épistémologique de la théorie des termes basiques." Phd thesis, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00464062.
Full textBennett, Keith. "World-views and the world : a study of the role of linguistic frameworks in our knowledge of the real." Master's thesis, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/133208.
Full textJutras-Tarakdjian, Anne-Hélène. "Relativité linguistique et prépositions spatiales en français et en espagnol." Mémoire, 2013. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/5512/1/M12898.pdf.
Full textMatějka, Štěpán. "Jazyková relativita a gramatický rod v češtině." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-305070.
Full textHubert, Johannes. "Blaue Bäume unter grünem Himmel?: Über Wahrnehmung und Benennung von Grundfarben und den übersetzungstheoretischen Umgang mit ihren Bezeichnungen." Master's thesis, 2013. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A12461.
Full textAdekunle, Oluwakemi Temitope. "A linguistic relativity appraisal of an African drama : the lion and the jewel." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10321/1435.
Full textThis research is designed to assess the validity of the Sapir Whorf hypothesis in relation to the linguistic and cultural notions of the Yoruba and Zulu language speakers’ via the evaluation of the culture enriched drama text The Lion and The Jewel by Wole Soyinka. The study, which uses both questionnaires and interviews to derive responses from participants, engages both the primary and secondary data throughout the chapters. The study queried both the hypothesis’ strong version, (language governs thought: linguistic classifications restrain and influence mental classifications); and its weak version, (linguistic classifications and their use influence thought as well as some other classes of non-linguistic activities) and their possible reliability. Participants’ ages were between 16 and 46 years old who all speak both English and isiZulu (isiZulu-speaking participants) and English and Yoruba (Yoruba-speaking participants). Questionnaires were used and interviews were conducted, the research questions were answered and the findings provided support for validity of the linguistic relativity hypothesis, that is, languages indeed influence thought. The findings also revealed that linguistic influence on cognition is not limited to different language speakers alone, but also same language speakers per level of exposure to other languages and concepts. Based on these findings, recommendations have been made. Among which is the soliciting more research on language and culture (acculturation and enculturation) such that societal peace, love, unity and development can be maintained and promoted in any monolingual, bilingual or multilingual society. Also, educators should be aware of the possibility of a psycholinguistic influence on thought and assimilate it into schools’ curriculum so that multiculturation is fully adopted and promoted in the schools.
Fialová, Lucie. "Moc jazyka ve výchovné metodě "Respektovat a být respektován"." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-306477.
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