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The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is a widely used label for the linguistic relativity hypothesis, that is, the proposal that the particular language we speak shapes the way we think about the world. The label derives from the names of American anthropological linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf, who persuasively argued for this idea during the ...
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The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is a widely used label for the linguistic relativity hypothesis, that is, the proposal that the particular language we speak shapes the way we think about the world. The label derives from the names of American anthropological linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf, who persuasively argued for this idea during the ...
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Emotions, language, and Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2009Conceptual and emotional mechanisms of language are considered along with their role in intelligence and cultural evolution. The paper discusses mechanisms of evolution of language from primordial undifferentiated animal cries to contemporary conceptual contents, while emotional contents are diminished.
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Language and emotions: Emotional Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
Neural Networks, 2009An emotional version of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis suggests that differences in language emotionalities influence differences among cultures no less than conceptual differences. Conceptual contents of languages and cultures to significant extent are determined by words and their semantic differences; these could be borrowed among languages and exchanged ...
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The immediate sources of the ‘Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis’
Historiographia Linguistica, 1996SummaryA 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.
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Chinese and English counterfactuals: The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis revisited
Cognition, 1983Abstract Bloom (1981) found that Chinese speakers were less likely than English speakers to give counterfactual interpretations to a counterfactual story. These findings, together with the presence of a distinct counterfactual marker (the subjunctive) in English, but not in Chinese, were interpreted as evidence for the weak form of the Sapir-Whorf ...
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The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis And The Meaning Of Quantum Mechanics
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2006In quantum mechanics we have a consistent mathematical structure, but no interpretation in terms of physical images in the classical sense. I question the universal applicability of such images, by arguing that they are products of a classical language.
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