• linguistic relativism: the Whorf hypothesis; the SapirWhorf hypothesis (/səˌpɪər ˈhwɔːrf/ sə-PEER WHORF); the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis; and Whorfianism...
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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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    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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    Hopi time controversy (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Gibt es ein sprachliches Relativitätsprinzip? Untersuchungen zur Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese (in German). Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag. Goddard, Cliff;...
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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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  • 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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    Ferdinand de Saussure (/soʊˈsjʊər/; French: [fɛʁdinɑ̃ də sosyʁ]; 26 November 1857 – 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher...
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  • teaches at Northern Illinois University, said that the film's use of the SapirWhorf hypothesis went "beyond anything that is plausible". She also felt the...
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  • Left-brain interpreter Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Crowley, D.; Heyer, P. (2006). Communication in History. Allyn and Bacon Inc. DeFrancis, John (1984). Chinese...
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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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    Henri Bergson (category Academic staff of the Collège de France)
    presented". In 1930, France awarded him its highest honour, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur. Bergson's great popularity created a controversy in France...
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    limits) the things that humans can think and say and thus know. The SapirWhorf hypothesis argues that individuals experience the world based on the...
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    language often aimed at processing natural language or at testing linguistic hypotheses, and historical linguistics relies on grammatical and lexical descriptions...
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    the same certainty as experimental science, but it sets out testable hypotheses and constructs a narrative explanation of what is observed. In this sense...
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    Structuralism (category Linguistic theories and hypotheses)
    France and the Russian Empire, in the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and the subsequent Prague, Moscow, and Copenhagen schools of linguistics...
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  • Sankhya Sanlun Sansara Śāntarakṣita Sante Geronimo Caserio Sapere aude SapirWhorf hypothesis Sarah Coakley Sarah Kofman Sarane Alexandrian Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan...
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    different concepts and conceptual metaphors, while others hold to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. German philologist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) contributed...
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  • Autonomy of syntax (category Linguistic theories and hypotheses)
    Humboldt Mauthner Ricœur de Saussure Frege Boas Tillich Sapir Bloomfield Bergson Vygotsky Wittgenstein Russell Carnap Derrida Whorf Austin Chomsky Gadamer...
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  • Compatible identifies three points of incompatibility between these two hypotheses. The first consists in the simple observation that while, for holism,...
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  • languages are: Some experimental languages were developed to observe hypotheses of alternative linguistic interactions which could have led to very different...
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    Formalism (linguistics) (category Linguistic theories and hypotheses)
    school of anthropology. His students included linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf. Leonard Bloomfield, on the other hand, traveled to Germany to...
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    Wolfowicz, Jacqueline (1979). "Review of Part of my Life". Revue Internationale de Philosophie. 33 (129): 588–597. ISSN 0048-8143. JSTOR 23944125 – via JSTOR...
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    Wilhelm Wundt (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Husserl, Bronisław Malinowski, George Herbert Mead, Edward Sapir, Ferdinand Tönnies, Benjamin Lee Whorf. Much of Wundt's work was derided mid-century in the...
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  • is an idea inferred from linguistic determinism, and subject in the SapirWhorf hypothesis. logical atomism Bertrand Russell developed logical atomism...
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    would be the same in every case, or to reword it, several translation hypotheses could be built on the same sensoric stimuli. Quine concluded his "Two...
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  • objects of scientific discovery. Hypotheses about relative frequencies in finite sequences are meaningful, but hypotheses concerning limits in infinite sequences...
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