Linguistic Relativity

An overview of linguistic relativity ("Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis")

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[mytparty]

On the topic of Inuit language(s) having multiple words for snow, I remember David Peterson pointing out in a talk he gave that it seems like such an interesting fact for a language to have multiple words for the same (or a similar) concept, but it becomes significantly less interesting when you realize English does the same thing. He said, for example, that he mentioned the "fun fact" to producers that one of the languages he developed, Dothraki, has several words for horse. However, so does English (horse, pony, mount, colt, mare, filly, steed, etc). It just seems really cool when you don't think about it.

[ChuckHaney]

As a speaker of English only, when I heard "The bottle floated into the cave" it sounded dry, factual and I was already past it and really had no interest in it. But when I heard "The bottle entered the cave floating" I was more interested in the bottle and the bottle's story. Visually when I heard the English version the bottle was small and insignificant, but the Spanish version had me seeing the bottle up close and bobbing the water and I was aware that it was headed somewhere.

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[anyatsitova]

Thank you for the informative video. The weak version is more popular and reasonable. The world around us is the same but we render it in different ways.
Though we have some examples of the strong theory in artificial languages. Like in 1984, the language (Newspeak) didn't allow people to think critically of a government. Or artificial language Loglan that was made to develop logical thinking. It succeeded :)
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[vadimislearningguitar]

Fascinating - i am italian - i have been teacher of English - and i am sure Whorf is right - English and Italian are two different planets - and to travel from one planet to the other - is a hard task - yes of course you can translate one into the other - but it is just when you translate that you notice how different they are - and that certain concept that go with words remain ofter untranslated - perception of course in perception for an italian and for an english person - fact is that English divides perception and concepts in a different way from italian - and that is a FACT.

[deadman]

I'm a cognitive linguist who implements natural language understanding on computers. It occurs to me that there is another effect, and I am not quite sure if it's different. That is, the process that the brain goes through when interpretactically converting and harmonizing thought with language also changes thinking. In particular, the process of correcting a prior belief from information obtained through language raises all sorts of issues, including such things as balancing evidence on epistemology because of its origin (trust, institutional facts, authority, etc.) may affect basic human reasoning, which is not based on predicates but more on motor programs in brains.

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