MCLS 30420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Oneword, Linguistic Determinism, Linguistic Relativity

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Foreign language and culture studies mcls 30420. Language: vehicle for labeling and experiencing our existence in the world, the most significant dimension of cultural expression. The way in which people perceive their world is dictated by their language: whorf (1940) Implies that languages far removed from each other reflect corresponding worldviews which cannot be translated. Implies that we cannot experience the world outside of our own language: lexical and conceptual gaps do exist, and in this sense the sapir-whorf. Hypothesis should not be discounted as completely off base: contextualizing the sapir-whorf hypothesis, examples to illustrate linguistic determinism and relativity, aymara indians living in the highlands of bolivia and peru in south. America depend on the potato as their major source of food. Their language has over 200 words for this vegetable, reflecting the many varieties they grow and the different ways they preserve and prepare it.

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