LIN 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Dan Slobin, Ray Jackendoff, Newspeak
19 Apr 2017
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Sapir believed experience is ltered through language and culture. The world in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels. (sapir, 1949, p. 162) Studies differences in linguistic categorization in native american and european languages. Empty gasoline drums connotations of an expression change the speaker"s view of the world. Concept of time in english (rigidity) and hopi (continuity, cyclicity) Attention directed to speci c realities (paiute example with landscape terms. [w]e are parties to an agreement to organize [nature] in this way an agreement that holds true throughout our speech community and is codi ed in the patterns of our language. This agreement is of course an implicit and understated one, but its terms are absolutely obligatory; we cannot talk at all except by subscribing to the organization and classi cation of data which the agreement decrees (whorf, 1956: 213-214) Whorf calls it the linguistic relativity principle .
