Abstract
The term “Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis” (LRH) has come to be used as a cover term for a family of related hypotheses about the possible causal impact of learning and speaking particular languages on nonlinguistic cognition. This chapter aims to distinguish among some of these hypotheses, trace their origins, and discuss the presently available evidence for and against them. It also examines the implications of the hypotheses and the sources of the interest in them. And it chronicles the waxing and waning of this interest since the writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941), which launched an at times heated debate about these ideas among scholars from across a range of academic disciplines. A classification of different types of language-on-thought effects is proposed. Special emphasis is placed on the role of the language-specificity and culture-specificity of linguistic meaning in the debate.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics |
| Publisher | wiley |
| Pages | 1-33 |
| Number of pages | 33 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781118788516 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781118788318 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2020 |
Keywords
- concept induction
- language-on-thought effects
- linguistic anthropology
- linguistic relativity
- linguistic relativity hypothesis
- linguistic transmission hypothesis
- semantic categorization
- semantic typology
- thinking-for-speaking effects
- whorf, benjamin lee
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