Essays about: "linguistic relativity"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 13 essays containing the words linguistic relativity.
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6. A Post-Structural Approach to Language Theory in Relation to Paul Auster’s City of Glass
University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikationAbstract : Do words mirror reality? This question has been at the core of several linguistic disputes for decades. Several scholars have investigated the relationship between the signifier and the signified, and different literary theories suggest different approaches. READ MORE
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7. How Chinese - English Bilinguals Think About Time : The Effects of Language on Space-Time Mappings
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskningAbstract : The last decades have witnessed the resurgence of research on linguistic relativity, which provides empirical evidence of possible language effects on thought across various perceptual domains. This study investigated the linguistic relativity hypothesis in the abstract domain of time by looking at how L1 Chinese - L2 English bilinguals conceptualize time in two-dimensional space. READ MORE
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8. Sex, communism, and dangerous red things - On the semantics of the Hungarian words piros and vörös
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : The topic of Basic Colour Terms (BCT) and their proposed universality has long been a source of debate within linguistics. Whether colour terms (as symbols) fill lexical gaps of presumed universal colour categories (as senses) or not is relevant for the debate regarding linguistic relativity: the hypothesis about the influence of language on the way we think. READ MORE
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9. Thinking and seeing for speaking : The viewpoint preference in Swedish/Japanese monolinguals and bilinguals
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskningAbstract : “Linguistic relativity” has been studied for a long time. Many empirical studies have been conducted on cross-linguistic differences to find support for the influence of language on thought. READ MORE
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10. REVITALIZING LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY: Pedagogical Implications in language teaching.
University essay from Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT)Abstract : The linguistic relativity hypothesis (LRH), otherwise known as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (SWH), has been passionately debated over the last 60 years. It has undergone a renewed upsurge in scientific, anthropological and social interest. READ MORE