• linguistic relativity, known also as the Whorf hypothesis, the SapirWhorf hypothesis (/səˌpɪər ˈhwɔːrf/ sə-PEER WHORF), or Whorfianism, is a principle suggesting...
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  • Lee Whorf (/hwɔːrf/; April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer best known for proposing the SapirWhorf hypothesis...
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    Gibt es ein sprachliches Relativitätsprinzip? Untersuchungen zur Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese (in German). Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag. Goddard, Cliff;...
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  • debate. One body of thought stems from linguistics and is known as the SapirWhorf hypothesis. There is a strong and a weak version of the hypothesis which...
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    his student Benjamin Lee Whorf into the principle of linguistic relativity or the "SapirWhorf" hypothesis. In anthropology Sapir is known as an early proponent...
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    the Penutian grouping: Macro-Penutian hypothesis (Benjamin Whorf) Or have produced hypotheses of relationships between Penutian and other large-scale families:...
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  • fiction, much work has been done on the assumption popularly known as the SapirWhorf hypothesis, Suzette Haden Elgin's Láadan is designed to lexicalize and...
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  • 2009/2012. (en) Madeleine Mathiot (dir.), Ethnolinguistics: Boas, Sapir, and Whorf revisited, Mouton, La Haye, 1979, 323 p. (ISBN 978-90-279-7597-3) (fr)...
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  • the alphabet Lateralization of brain function Left-brain interpreter Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Crowley, D.; Heyer, P. (2006). Communication in History. Allyn...
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  • issue, each offering a number of insights and suggestions. Linguists Sapir and Whorf suggested that language limited the extent to which members of a "linguistic...
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