To begin with the research conducted by Daniel Everett does support claims made by the linguistic researchers, Benjamin Whorf and Edward Sapir. Specifically this essay will focus on Daniel Everett’s research that was about the Brazilian tribe called the Piraha. The specific concepts that will be focused on within this essay are about the linguistic relativity hypothesis, which is referred to as the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis (Lucy, 1997, p. 294). A purpose of this essay intends to demonstrate that Everett’s research does provide support for claims made by Whorf and Sapir. The essay will also look at how specific claims made by Whorf will relate to the Piraha. First this essay will summarize what linguistic relativity is and then will go further to summarize specific claims that are related to the hypothesis related linguistic relativity. Next the essay will summarize what Everett found during his research with the tribe. After the essay will analyze specific claims and ideas that were found, which will than be applied to how they relate to linguistic relativity. This essay will include how other researchers worked with the Piraha tribe and how their work helps support the linguistic relativity hypothesis.
To put plainly the Linguistic relativity, which is also referred to as the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis, …show more content…
What Whorf than concluded was "…language must influence culture, since otherwise children would have to learn their culture in order to learn their grammar, an order of acquisition proscribed in Chomskyan models." (Everett, 2005). To simplify what Whorf has said is that children will often learn a language first than learn a culture. It can there be concluded by the audience that since language comes first before the introduction to culture, that language has a larger impact on how what a culture
To put plainly the Linguistic relativity, which is also referred to as the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis, …show more content…
What Whorf than concluded was "…language must influence culture, since otherwise children would have to learn their culture in order to learn their grammar, an order of acquisition proscribed in Chomskyan models." (Everett, 2005). To simplify what Whorf has said is that children will often learn a language first than learn a culture. It can there be concluded by the audience that since language comes first before the introduction to culture, that language has a larger impact on how what a culture