Principle of linguistic relativity
- Principle of linguistic relativity
The principle of linguistic relativity is Benjamin Whorf's theory of the way in which an individual's thoughts are influenced by the language(s) they have available to express them.
Many versions of this theory have been proposed and debated, some under the name of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and sometimes just as Whorf's hypothesis or the Whorfian hypothesis. Whorf himself objected strongly to the latter two names, maintaining that he had made many other hypotheses, and that if this particular theory was being attributed to him then surely he had the right to name it.
Whorf's theory has been criticized on the basis that Whorf supposedly claimed that language determines thought. However, Whorf himself only wrote that language provides "habits" of thought that influence cognition.
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