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I’d thought that Sapir-Whorf was largely discredited, but I was wrong: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin
by petesergeant 4y ago
I’d thought that Sapir-Whorf was largely discredited, but I was wrong: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
I wonder how this applies to languages that have been revived? Do modern-day Hebrew (also a revived language[0]) speakers relate to it and Jewish culture the way that Judean Jews did? Presumably the corpus of existing literature is a significant factor.
0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_of_the_Hebrew_language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_of_the_Hebrew_langua...
- Tagbert 4y agoSapir-Whorf is, at best, a minor effect among many in how we perceive the world.
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- tgv 4y agoSapir-Whorf is discredited AFAIK, although some nearly trivial influence of language probably exists. There's almost no support, and the support I've seen suffers from the usual pitfalls (not excluding other causes, bad inferential statistics, etc.). I'm appalled that Wikipedia cites a text book as the proof.