On my blog: “Slaying, yet again, the idea that the languages we speak shape the thoughts we think.”: The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis holds that language shapes the way we think. It’s an obsolete linguistic theory, but it’s going strong in other disciplines and in pop culture: Perhaps the most famous invocation of Sapir-Whorf is the claim that because Eskimos have dozens of words for snow, they have a mental apparatus that equips them differently—and, […]
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 23:30:06 +0000
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