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Jul 26, 2016 · This article outlines the history of empirical research on linguistic relativity, surveys current research, and appraises critically the trends of the past decade, highlighting conceptual and methodological issues.
- John A. Lucy
- 2016
Time also merits more research with respect to the linguistic relativity/universalism debate, language acquisition, and language modelling in computational linguistics, as well as theoretical and applied contrastive studies.
Aug 3, 2018 · English doesn’t require that, but does that mean evidence matters less to us than to them? And if it does, does the language cause it or just reflect the priority?
Aug 12, 2022 · Is there truly evidence of linguistic relativity? Does language serve as the primary moderator of thought, or do cultural influences play a more pressing role in cognitive thought processes for a given group?
- What Is The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
- How Language Influences Culture
- Studies & Examples
- Critique
- Supporting Evidence
- Modern Relevance
Twentieth-century linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf are known for this very principle and its popularization. Their joint theory, known as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis or, more commonly, the Theory of Linguistic Relativity, holds great significance in all scopes of communication theories. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that people expe...
Culture is defined by the values, norms, and beliefs of a society. Our culture can be considered a lens through which we undergo the world and develop a shared meaning of what occurs around us. The language that we create and use is in response to the cultural and societal needs that arose. In other words, there is an apparent relationship between ...
The lexicon, or vocabulary, is the inventory of the articles a culture speaks about and has classified to understand the world around them and deal with it effectively. For example, our modern life is dictated for many by the need to travel by some vehicle – cars, buses, trucks, SUVs, trains, etc. We, therefore, have thousands of words to talk abou...
Today, it is widely believed that some aspects of perception are affected by language. Honestly, the idea that a mother tongue can restrict one’s understanding has been largely unaccepted. For example, in German, there is a term that means to take pleasure in another person’s unhappiness. While there is no translatable equivalent in English, it jus...
On the other hand, there is hard evidence that the language-associated habits we acquire play a role in how we view the world. And indeed, this is especially true for languages that attach genders to inanimate objects. There was a study done that looked at how German and Spanish speakers view different things based on their given gender association...
The idea was just recently revisited in the movie “Arrival,” – a science fiction film that engagingly explores the ways in which an alien language can affect and alter human thinking. And even if some of the most drastic claims of the theory have been debunked or argued against, the idea has continued its relevance, and that does say something abou...
Oct 27, 2010 · We identify seven categories of hypotheses about the possible effects of language on thought across a wide range of domains, including motion, color, spatial relations, number, and false belief understanding.
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Oct 15, 2020 · Empirical evidence for linguistic relativity is reviewed from the perspectives of first language influences on cognition, including color, motion, number, time, objects, and nonlinguistic representations, and from the prism of cross-linguistic influences.
