Benjamin Lee Whorf (/ w ɔːr f /; April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) 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 …

Sommaire déplacer vers la barre latérale masquer Début 1 Relativisme linguistique chez Sapir et Whorf Afficher / masquer la sous-section Relativisme linguistique chez Sapir et Whorf 1.1 Avant Sapir et Whorf 1.2 Anthropologie d'Edward Sapir 1.3 Radicalisme de Benjamin Lee Whorf 2 Recherches empiriques sur l’hypothèse de Sapir-Whorf Afficher / masquer la sous-section …

In linguistica, l'ipotesi di Sapir-Whorf (o Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, in sigla SWH), conosciuta anche come ipotesi della relatività linguistica, afferma che lo sviluppo cognitivo di ciascun essere umano è influenzato dalla lingua che parla. Nella sua forma più estrema, questa ipotesi assume che il modo di esprimersi determini il modo di pensare. L'ipotesi prende il nome dal linguista e ...

Die Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese [ˈzaːpiɐ̯ ˈvɔʁf hypoˈteːzə] ist eine Annahme aus der Sprachwissenschaft (Linguistik), der zufolge die Sprache das Denken beeinflusst. Sie wurde postum abgeleitet aus Schriften von Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941), der sich wiederum auf seinen Lehrer Edward Sapir (1884–1939) berief. Den Ausdruck „Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese“ …

The hypothesis of linguistic relativity, also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis / s ə ˌ p ɪər ˈ w ɔːr f /, the Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism, is a principle suggesting that the structure of a language affects its speakers' worldview or cognition, and thus people's perceptions are relative to their spoken language.. Linguistic relativity has been understood in many different ...

La hipótesis de Sapir-Whorf es una suposición del campo de la lingüística.Fue derivada, de manera póstuma, de los escritos de Benjamin Whorf, quien atribuyó la idea a su profesor Edward Sapir.La expresión "hipótesis Sapir-Whorf" se debe a Harry Hoijer (1954). En el contexto de averiguar hasta qué punto un determinado idioma, con sus estructuras gramaticales y su …

Benjamin Whorf (1956: 256), following up an observation by Franz Boas, contended that the Hopi Indians do not experience themselves, or life, as narrative grammar or pattern. Rather than past-present-future, as segregated syuzhet, the Hopi experience is one of "eventing." ... Whorf, Benjamin Lee (1956). Language, Thought and Reality - Selected ...

A language-game (German: Sprachspiel) is a philosophical concept developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, referring to simple examples of language use and the actions into which the language is woven.Wittgenstein argued that a word or even a sentence has meaning only as a result of the "rule" of the "game" being played. Depending on the context, for example, the …

Linguistics. In linguistics, semantics is the subfield that studies meaning. Semantics can address meaning at the levels of words, phrases, sentences, or larger units of discourse.Two of the fundamental issues in the field of semantics are that of compositional semantics (which pertains on how smaller parts, like words, combine and interact to form the meaning of larger …

The phrase "linguistic turn" was used to describe the noteworthy emphasis that contemporary philosophers put upon language.Language began to play a central role in Western philosophy in the early 20th century. One of the central figures involved in this development was the German philosopher Gottlob Frege, whose work on philosophical logic and the philosophy of …