Linguistic Relativity
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Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
In
linguistics
, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (SWH) postulates a systematic relationship between the
grammatical
categories
of the
language
a person speaks and how that person both understands the world and behaves in it. Although known as the Sapir–Whorf
hypothesis
, it was an underlying
axiom
of linguist and
anthropologist
Edward Sapir
and his colleague and student
Benjamin Whorf
.
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Linguistic Relativity
our language determines the way we think ( see Whorf).
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Ray Wright
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