Raina, Achla Misri
(2018)
Why the world looks different in other languages.
Language and Language Teaching, 7 (2).
pp. 43-49.
ISSN 2277-307X
Abstract
Linguists and philosophers have for centuries
debated the place of language in how humans
think about their world. While there appears to
be a general agreement that language is a
crucial window to reality, the extent to which it
can actually shape our conceptualization of
reality has been a contentious issue. One of the
debates on this issue centres around the principle
of linguistic relativity, also known as the Sapir-
Whorf hypothesis, which states that the world
looks significantly different in different
languages, and that humans understand their
world in terms of the conceptual categories
made available to them by their languages.
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