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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&