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I know it’s not the point of your comment, but the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is about how your language itself structures your thinking, not word or grammar choice
by marcellus23 5y ago
I know it’s not the point of your comment, but the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is about how your language itself structures your thinking, not word or grammar choice in individual utterances or writings made by an individual.
- kqr 5y agoAha! I never dug deep enough into the issue to learn that. Thanks! Is there a name for the phenomenon I'm referring to?
- musingsole 5y agoI don't see your correction. Individual word or grammar preferences are to Sapir-Whorf what tactics are to strategy.
- marcellus23 5y agoNot quite. Sapir-Whorf is specifically about the _structure_ of a language, meaning its syntax, morphology, etc. Vocabulary choice obviously influences how you interpret a specific utterance, but Sapir-Whorf is about how a language's structure influences its speakers' cognition at a basic level, i.e. _how_ they think, not _what_ they think.