Essays about: "whorf linguistic relativity"

Found 3 essays containing the words whorf linguistic relativity.

  1. 1. Sex, communism, and dangerous red things - On the semantics of the Hungarian words piros and vörös

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Jessica Presits; [2017]
    Keywords : linguistics; colour semantics; basic colour terms; linguistic relativity; Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; piros; vörös; Hungarian; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : 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

  3. 2. REVITALIZING LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY: Pedagogical Implications in language teaching.

    University essay from Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT)

    Author : Ashley Blackmore; [2012]
    Keywords : linguistic determinism; linguistic relativity; Sapir-Whorf; language and thought; upper-secondary school;

    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

  4. 3. Talmy's manner in event perception: An eye-tracking approach to linguistic relativity

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitionsvetenskap

    Author : Richard Andersson; [2005]
    Keywords : Humlab; Eye-tracking; Whorf; Manner; Linguistic relativity; Memory; Motion; Languages and Literatures; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study uses eye-tracking equipment to search for effects of linguistic relativity. The study tries to escape the traditional battle between anti-relativistic modularism and pro-relativistic connectionism by testing effects of “distributed” linguistic relativity. READ MORE