We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
Benjamin Lee Whorf Quotes
Showing all text quotesBirth: | 24th April, 1897 |
Death: | 26th July, 1941 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Scientist |
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Whorf is widely known as an advocate for the idea that because of linguistic differences in grammar and usage, speakers of different languages conceptualize and experience the world differently. This principle has frequently been called the "Sapir–Whorf hypothesis", after him and his mentor Edward Sapir, but Whorf called it the principle of linguistic relativity, because he saw the idea as having implications similar to Einstein's principle of physical relativity.
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