2008•Journal of China University of Mining & Technology(Social Science)Requires access
Development Track of Linguistic Relativity
Lili Zhang
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Abstract
Linguistic relativity is an extremely important theory concerning the relations between language,culture and thought.The milestones in its development are generally represented by the following scholars as: Parmenides,R·Bacon,G·Vivo,A·Hyman,Herbert,G·Herder,W·Humboldt,L·Weisgerber,F·Boas,E·Sapir,B·Whorf.Among them,Humboldt first expounds the language relativity more systematically and explicitly;meanwhile,Sapir and Whorf are the most important scholars for its development and formation.The philosophical basis of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is empirical and the theoretical background is structuralism.It has now become the theoretical guide for some contemporary emerging subjects.