Linguistic relativity

Kassie Tulenko In Kulick’s article “Anger, Gender, Language Shift And The Politics Of Revelation In a Papa New Guinean Village” he focuses on a synchronic view of culture and language in Papa New Guinea to argue for broader diachronic shifts. Kulick describes two languages, Tok Pisin and Taiap, and speakers’ use of code switching between these languages to index gender, intelligence, and sociability. The men use the formal language, Tok Pisin, which indexes education, Christianity, and progress…

The idea of leadership has a deep social and global focus. Nevertheless, as a society we tend to associate leadership with hierarchies, power and ethnocentrism. According Gordon Starr (2015), blogger in the Huffington Post, a source dedicated to offer international news and articles to the public, most of the chaos we are living as an international community is mainly because we fail to understand the construct of global leadership. Starr (2015) explains his experience as a pioneer in building…

The relationship between thought and language holds a diverse range of theories. Much of the background literature suggests that the connection between the two begins as early as infancy, with some research into the field of anthropology. Three key figures in its origins are Vygotsky, Piaget and Sapir-Whorf. Vygotsky held a cultural, or ontogenetic, view on the origins of thought and language. In his view, language and thought held two separate roots that developed on a parallel which had…

is a highly controversial topic in the field of linguistics. How easily does language acquisition occur and in what ways may it be limited? Through his text Language and Symbolic Power, French linguist Pierre Bourdieu introduces a market metaphor in order to explain the ways that communicative exchanges relay both messages contained in words and nonlinguistic information about a person’s social status. He explains that in the process of “linguistic exchange,” speakers are able to gain “symbolic…

lives to the attempt of understanding just a fraction of what composes the human race of today, as well as the path traveled to reach this point. Much of today’s anthropological achievements can be seen by looking at the fields of archeology and linguistic anthropology,…

Specifically, the research compiled explains the inherent uncertainty in these ideas and the consequent dangers of delving into the complicated study. Keywords: Universalism, Linguistic Relativity, Sapir-Whorf, Psycholinguistic, Language, Cognition Language, the most diverse yet universal concept, has existed since the beginning of mankind. An important aspect of growth and development, language is the means by which ideas are…

concluded that the Hopi have an entirely different concept of "time" than European languages do, and that the European concepts of "time" and "matter" are conditioned by language itself. Relativity and Determinism Two problems arise to be confronted in this area: linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism. Relativity is straightforward to show. To speak any language, you have to pay attention to the meanings that are grammatically marked in that language. For illustration, in English it is…

dialect that is used in every situation. I believe that there are different components that make up the world we live in, at least there is for me; I compartmentalize my world. I use a different language in each one. I have my world at home: the linguistic relativity the paralanguage used there is very direct and to the point. There is freedom of…

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Zainab Saleem Khan Section K It is often thought that the reality expressed in spoken word is the very same as the reality which is perceived in thought. Perception and expression are frequently understood to be synonymous and it is assumed that our speech is based on our thoughts. This idea presumes that what one says is dependent of how it is encoded and decoded in the mind. (Badhesha, 2002) However, there are many people that believe the opposite: what one…

encourage a cognitive bias against women (e.g. Crawford and English, 1984; Wilson and Ng, 1988). The theoretical perspective used to explain the impact of sexist language on thought and behavior was Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf's theory of linguistic relativity, where language provides people with their guide to social reality (Whorf,…