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The Interpretation of Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

MO Qion

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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis,also called Linguistic Relativity,has been the common interest of those who study in anthropology,semantics,pratigmatics,sociolinguistics and phycholinguistics as well as in linguistics since the 1930s or 1940s. The Hypothesis has two versions:the strong versition and the weak versition. The strong versition holds language determines people's thought,belief and attitude; the weak version states language,only to some degree,influences not determines people's thought.

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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis,also called Linguistic Relativity,has been the common interest of those who study in anthropology,semantics,pratigmatics,sociolinguistics and phycholinguistics as well as in linguistics since the 1930s or 1940s. The Hypothesis has two versions:the strong versition and the weak versition. The strong versition holds language determines people's thought,belief and attitude; the weak version states language,only to some degree,influences not determines people's thought.

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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis,also called Linguistic Relativity,has been the common interest of those who study in anthropology,semantics,pratigmatics,sociolinguistics and phycholinguistics as well as in linguistics since the 1930s or 1940s. The Hypothesis has two versions:the strong versition and the weak versition. The strong versition holds language determines people's thought,belief and attitude; the weak version states language,only to some degree,influences not determines people's thought.

Key concepts: Linguistic relativity, Interpretation (philosophy), Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Semantics (computer science), Language and thought, Epistemology, Theoretical linguistics

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