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Language thought and reality

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One cannot speak of the influence of language on thoughts without mentioning the Sapir - Whorf hypothesis . It is the intriguing idea of linguistic relativity, largely attributed to Sapir & Whorf, which central theme is that culture , affects the thinking of humans through the language. This should be due to the fact that fundamental categories of our thoughts (space, time, object-subject, etc. ) are not the same in all the different languages.
What Whorf actually wrote appears to be unknown to most people, especially to those who ascribe to him a hypothesis he had never formulated . What this author actually wrote was , essentially, that the constancy of our language makes us think of a fist or a lightning strike as a " thing "; a slight elevation of the earth is felt as a "thing" different than the surrounding land (a hill ), or the slightly higher water content of the soil leads it to be conceived as a "thing" different than the surrounding terrain ( a quagmire ) . What this author wanted to point out, is the difference between conception and perception.

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Z. HANDIMAN

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243 CAR l

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Cambridge : The M.I.T. Press., 1987

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xi,278p.; 21 cm.

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English

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0-262-73006-5

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243

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EVANGELISTIC WRITINGS

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