The conclusions about the significance of Pirah?numeracy and linguistic relativity in Frank " et al . " ( 2008 ) are quoted below.
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Edward Sapir's and Benjamin Whorf's hypothesis of linguistic relativity holds that the language we speak both affects and reflects our view of the world.
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That's not what researchers in the 1970s found with another remote tribe, in a study that sent linguistic relativity into something of a tailspin.
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This, Lucy argues, made them blind to the instances in which color terms provided other information that might be considered examples of linguistic relativity.
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Her work has provided new insights into the controversial question of whether the languages we speak shape the way we think ( Linguistic relativity ).
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This part of his thinking was developed by his student Benjamin Lee Whorf into the principle of linguistic relativity or the " Sapir-Whorf " hypothesis.
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Weisgerber's conception of linguistic relativity was more extreme than that of Benjamin Lee Whorf or Edward Sapir, with whom the theory is most often associated.
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:: : : The idea that language effects the way one is able to conceptualize things is called the Sapir Whorf hypothesis or linguistic relativity.
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Linguistic relativity has a link to a fairly vituperative essay, " The Great Whorf Hypothesis Hoax ", arguing that such a thing never even existed.
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According to Black and Davidson, Whorf's viewpoint and the concept of linguistic relativity meant that translation between languages with different conceptual schemes would be impossible.
