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Blues in Two Different Spanish-Speaking Populations

Frontiers in Communication, 2017
Several studies investigating color discrimination across languages have shown a facilitation effect in groups that employ more than one term to refer to a given color.
Fernando González-Perilli, Fernando González-Perilli, Ignacio Rebollo, Alejandro Maiche, Analía Arévalo   +4 more
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Grammatical Gender Effect on Object Similarity Perception of Indonesian–German Bilinguals: Use of Big Data Analysis and Computation

Engineering Proceedings
We investigated how grammatical gender affects the way bilinguals perceive the similarity of an object. We adopted the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis regarding the effect of language on a person’s way of thinking.
Feidora Nadia Putri, Farah Mutiasari Djalal   +1 more
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Ukryte w języku aspekty przygotowania dzieci do szkoły

Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji, 2017
In this paper I reconstruct the image of school generated by children a short while before they cross their first educational threshold. I am interested in the aspect of school readiness hidden in language, which is anchored in culture, social life and ...
Grażyna Szyling
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The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Today

Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2012
The Sapir-Whorf's Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis provokes intellectual discussion about the strong impact language has on our perception of the world around us. This paper intends to enliven the still open questions raised by this hypothesis. This is done by considering some of Sapir’s, Whorf’s, and other scholar’s works.
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Geopolityczne znaczenie języka w ujęciu lingwistycznym i socjolingwistycznym [PDF]

Przegląd Geopolityczny
The article explains the differences between linguistic and sociolinguistic approaches to the relationship between language and geopolitics. The author argues for the unsuitability of the linguistic approach, which is related to the weaknesses of the ...
Roman SZUL
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Stereotypes in Czech phraseology. Nations and ethnic groups

Topics in Linguistics, 2015
The starting point for this study is that (the majority of) conventional figurative units (CFUs) are conceptual in nature and that they somehow record and preserve the knowledge and even worldview of diverse cultures.
Gutiérrez Rubio Enrique
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Relativismo lingüístico, relativismo ontológico

Nóesis, 2012
This article presents and explores some of the fundamental ideas related to the so-called linguistic (or deterministic) relativism. Linguistic relativism is represented in the contemporary era by the so-called Sapir- Whorf Hypothesis.
Alberto Escalera Narváez
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Color Categorization Independent of Color Naming

Cell Reports, 2019
Summary: Color is continuous, yet we group colors into discrete categories associated with color names (e.g., yellow, blue). Color categorization is a case in point in the debate on how language shapes human cognition.
Katarzyna Siuda-Krzywicka, Christoph Witzel, Emma Chabani, Myriam Taga, Cécile Coste, Noëlla Cools, Sophie Ferrieux, Laurent Cohen, Tal Seidel Malkinson, Paolo Bartolomeo   +9 more
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The Prison of Language: Brian O’Nolan, An Béal Bocht, and Language Determinism

The Parish Review, 2018
Rather than reaffirming An Béal Bocht’s status as a parody of other Irish-language texts, Radvan Markus bridges the gap between An Béal Bocht as Gaelic satire and the postmodernism of O’Nolan’s English-language novels At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third ...
Radvan Markus
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Descriptive Metaphysics, Natural Language Metaphysics, Sapir-Whorf, and All That Stuff: Evidence from the Mass-Count Distinction

The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010
Strawson (1959) described ‘descriptive metaphysics’, Bach (1986a) described ‘natural language metaphysics’, Sapir (1929) and Whorf (1940a,b, 1941) describe, well, Sapir-Whorfianism.
Francis Jeffry Pelletier
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