Logical pluralism and linguistic relativism:
Filosofia UnisinosThis 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.
Jorge Alejandro Santos +2 more
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Linguistic relativism: Logic, grammar, and arithmetic in cultural comparison [PDF]
Language and Communication, 2007 Linguistic relativism is the thesis that the grammatical structures of different languages imply different conceptions of reality. In this paper we critically discuss one form of linguistic relativism, which argues that grammatical differences between the English and Yoruba language exhibit differences in how English and Yoruba speakers 'see' reality ...
Christian Greiffenhagen, Wes Sharrock
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Is That “Mr.” or “Ms.” Lemon? An Investigation of Grammatical and Semantic Gender on the Perception of Household Odorants [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2022 Linguistic relativism is the idea that the structure of language influences thought. The present study investigates linguistic relativism by asking whether people who speak a gendered language think of objects in a way that is consistent with the ...
Theresa L. White +2 more
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Language, silence, and logic: Zen, Nishida, and fthe Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in cognitive and cultural perspectives [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis study employs a weakened version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis as its analytical framework. Through comparative conceptual analysis, it examines Zen Buddhism’s nonverbal practices (koans and silence) and Nishida Kitaro’s dialectical philosophy of ...
Xue Kuang +5 more
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Phenomenal Worlds and Scientific Lexicons: Thomas Kuhn’s Linguistic Relativism
Revista de Filosofia, 2017 Thomas Kuhn’s relativistic position is usually expounded in terms of its subjectivist and irrationalist consequences and, accordingly, as a contribution to anti-scientificism.
Juan Vicente Mayoral de Lucas
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Sapir-WhorfHypothesis and English & Persian Idioms and Proverb [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2005 This article examines the. strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis to see whether language truly determines thought. Since Idioms and proverbs represent culture, animal idioms and proverbs in both English and Persian were collected from ...
mansour fahim
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Language and dystopia: the 'Newspeak' in George Orwell's «Nineteen Eighty-Four»
Griseldaonline, 2021 In the dystopian world that George Orwell imagines in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the hegemonic politic party Ingsoc promulgates the Newspeak, a language created in order to satisfy the ideological needs of the Party: to control the individual and ...
Eleonora Marzi
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Journalism’s Power of Discourse: Be it Through A Periscope or Kaleidoscope
Дискурс профессиональной коммуникации, 2023 The present research paper delves into the power of journalism’s discourse through a comparative analysis of literary and non-literary journalism.
Z. S. Roozafzai
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Relatywizm kulturowy a badanie relacji międzykulturowych
Relacje Międzykulturowe, 2017 Cultural Relativism and Research on Intercultural Relations The article discusses various versions of relativism – descriptive, linguistic and axiological. Author assumes the attitude toward specific questions regarding above types of relativism in terms
Janusz A. Majcherek
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Endangered languages: The case of Irish Gaelic [PDF]
Training, Language and Culture, 2018 Research into why some languages die and why other languages survive is an important area of linguistic and cultural research. Languages represent a culture and when the language dies, more often than not, the culture it expresses dies with it.
Peter McGee
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