Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Edward Sapir (1884–1939) and Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941)developed the idea known as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. Sapir and Whorf posited that the particular language we speak influences the way we see reality because categories and distinctions encoded in one language are not ...

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