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→Name and origin: neither Sapir nor Whorf actually named any of their ideas about language and cognition the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
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Sapir's forerunner & linguistic determinism
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wikify
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Quote from student term paper - clearer than anything else I've come across on this topic
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→Name and origin
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→Related heories: heories? is that something only men think about?
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February 26, 2009
words don't merely match pre-existing things in the world. Rather, they shape and encapsulate ideas about things
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named for Sapir and Whorf, supposedly deriving from the latter's observations about time words in the Hopi language
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→Theories: related theories, maybe
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once more trying to define this elusive concept - God, give me the right words!
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did Sapir or Whorf actually have anything to do with this idea?
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→References
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names of thinkers
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Trying to get closer to what Whorf actually said
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Quotations from other sources cannot simply disappear into the text
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realize to what extent the language you speak influences what and how you think
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→Theories: spelling and spacing
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links, cat as requested
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February 25, 2009
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Sapir believed that language shapes human perception and directs human behavior
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culture affects language, but it is controversial as to whether or not language affects culture
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formatting
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Protected "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis": Temporary protection until article is complete [edit=sysop:move=sysop]
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