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We discuss four interconnected issues that we believe have hindered investigations into how language may affect thinking. These have had a tendency to reappear in the debate concerning linguistic relativity over the past decades, despite numerous empirical findings. The first is the claim that it is impossible to disentangle language from thought, making the question concerning “influence” pointless. The second is the argument that it is impossible to disentangle language from culture in general, and from social interaction in particular, so it is impossible to attribute any differences in the thought patterns of the members of different cultures to language per se. The third issue is the objection that methodological and empirical problems defeat all but the most trivial version of the thesis of linguistic influence: that language gives new factual information. The fourth is the assumption that since language can potentially influence thought from “not at all” to “completely,” the possible forms of ...
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150 Psychologie; consciousness; culture; discourse; language; relativity; thought; Whorf
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URL: https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/10253
https://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-9215
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The Expression of Motion Events: A Quantitative Study of Six Typologically Varied Languages
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In: Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society; BLS 39: General Session and Special Session on Space and Directionality; 364-379 ; 2377-1666 ; 0363-2946 (2013)
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From Cognitive to Integral Linguistics and Back Again
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Zlatev, Jordan. - : Compiègne : Association pour la Recherche sur la Cognition, 2011. : PERSÉE : Université de Lyon, CNRS & ENS de Lyon, 2011
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