People around the world speak different languages and have different perceptions of how the world is. These language differences across various regions reflect their cultural differences and a varied conceptual structure. Language helps create some aspects of reality for people and people in turn view the world and reason accordingly. Language differences affect our normal, reflexive thinking making us capable to reason, understand and think. Though there are a lot of objections to the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis of linguistic relativity, the concept is strongly justified by many factors like lexicon and syntax of different languages.
The linguistic relativity principle is based on the idea that people brought up in different cultures, speaking different languages, will not think or perceive the world in a similar way. It claims that speakers of different languages think and behave differently because of their distinct cultural and cognitive backgrounds. While focusing on the notion that language reflects reality and determines how people perceive the world, it also emphasizes that language dictates what we think and controls our reasoning. The grammar and linguistics of a language …show more content…
Since languages vary in the number of color words they have, color distinctions are created by language, which is a strong evidence for linguistic relativity. One classic theory is the Kay-Kempton experiment using color triads, where three color chips of green, aqua and blue were shown to English and Tarahumara speakers. The English speakers distinguished green and blue while the Tarahumara speakers identified green and aqua. While the blue chip was odd for the Tarahumara speaker, the aqua chip was odd for the English speaker. Therefore, the number of basic words in a person’s color vocabulary determine how easy it is for that person to recognize those
The linguistic relativity principle is based on the idea that people brought up in different cultures, speaking different languages, will not think or perceive the world in a similar way. It claims that speakers of different languages think and behave differently because of their distinct cultural and cognitive backgrounds. While focusing on the notion that language reflects reality and determines how people perceive the world, it also emphasizes that language dictates what we think and controls our reasoning. The grammar and linguistics of a language …show more content…
Since languages vary in the number of color words they have, color distinctions are created by language, which is a strong evidence for linguistic relativity. One classic theory is the Kay-Kempton experiment using color triads, where three color chips of green, aqua and blue were shown to English and Tarahumara speakers. The English speakers distinguished green and blue while the Tarahumara speakers identified green and aqua. While the blue chip was odd for the Tarahumara speaker, the aqua chip was odd for the English speaker. Therefore, the number of basic words in a person’s color vocabulary determine how easy it is for that person to recognize those