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SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS

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SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS

Examples

Gasoline drums Vs. EMPTYGasoline drums

People's interpretation of the linguistic sign EMPTY influencedtheir perception of these drums as being safer than their FULLcounterparts, and obscured the fact that they still containedexplosive vapour

WALK-AWAY SAFE nuclear plants

Members of public: 'People living nearby couldwalk rather than run, from the area in the eventof an accident&

Technical community: A plant which canautomatically shut itself down ifnecessary

Critiques

Unable to make assertions about reality becauseof doubting one's own ability to correctlydescribe reality

Lack of empirical support: only language nuances used toprove vast differences between language and thenexpecting readers to infer those difference in thoughts andbehaviour

Danger of inescapable circularity: We observe that languagesdiffer and conclude that the thought of their speakers also differ,but the only evidence is that their thoughts differ because of thelanguage they use

Weak Version:

More Accepted

Linguistic Relativity

The way we see the world may beinfluenced by the kind of language weuse

Language heavily influences thought

Language does not influence thought

Disputes

Differences between linguisticand non-linguistic events

No way to define language as influencingthought when there is no distinction betweenlinguistic and non-linguistic events

Evidence based purely onlinguistic differences

Concept of universal

Existence of deep structuresthat are common to alllanguages

Translatability

Although languages may differ considerably in theway they express certain details, it is still quitepossible to translate those details from one languageto another

Language partially influences thought

Concept of codability

Differences

Emphasizes potential for thinking to beinfluenced rather than unavoidablydetermined

Two-way process: the kind of language weused in also influenced by the way we see theworld

Accepts that any influence is ascribed not tolanguage, but to the use within a language ofone variety rather than another, i.e sociolect

Underscores the social context of languageuse rather than to purely linguisticconsiderations

Strong Version

Linguistic Determinism

Thoughts and behaviour aredetermined by language

Language you speak determineshow you interpret the world aroundyou

&No two languages are ever sufficiently similar tobe considered as representing the same socialreality

&The worlds in which different societies live aredifferent worlds, not merely the same world withdifferent labels attached&