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Aug 27, 2023 · Linguistic Relativity in Psychology. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, also known as linguistic relativity, refers to the idea that the language a person speaks can influence their worldview, thought, and even how they experience and understand the world.
The Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, also known as the linguistic relativity hypothesis, refers to the proposal that the particular language one speaks influences the way one thinks about reality.
LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY. John A. Lucy. Commite on Human Development, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ilinois. 60637; e-mail: jlucy@cp.uchicago.edu. KEY WORDS: Sapir-Whorf hypothesi, linguistic detrminsm, language and thought, language and cogniton, language and culture. ABSTRACT.
A linguistic relativity hypothesis says that some particular aspect of language influences some particular aspect of cognition. Many different aspects of language could, for all we know, influence many different aspects of cognition.
Oct 27, 2016 · The linguistic relativity principle proposes that the specific characteristics of the language(s) spoken by an individual or a group are likely to become habitual for the speaker and thus provide a path of least resistance for conceptualization and potentially for action.
Linguistic relativity comprises three main ideas.1–3First, it assumes that languages can differ significantly in the meanings of their words and syntactic constructions—an assumption that is strongly supported by linguistic, anthropological, and psychological studies of word and phrasal meaning across languages.3–5Second, the proposal holds that ...
Abstract. The linguistic relativity hypothesis, the proposal that the particular language we speak influences the way we think about reality, forms one part of the broader question of how language influences thought. Despite long-standing historical interest in the hypothesis, there is relatively little empirical research directly addressing it.
