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Benjamin Lee Whorf

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What the Munduruku people can teach us about language (Whorf 1950s Psycholinguistics)| Psychology

 

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Does language shape how we think? Linguistic relativity & linguistic determinism -- Linguistics 101

 

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Benjamin Lee Whorf exposición

 

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Benjamin Lee Whorf - Exposiciones

 

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Sapir Whorf hypothesis

Benjamin Lee Whorf was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer. Whorf is widely known as an advocate for the idea that differences between the structures of different languages shape how their speakers perceive and conceptualize the world. 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.