Ted Chiang's short story " Story of Your Life " developed the concept of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis as applied to an alien species which visits Earth.
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:The general idea that words ( or other symbolic expressions like musical or mathematical notation ) shape thought ( and vice versa ) is known as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.
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This debate is analogous to that surrounding the Sapir Whorf hypothesis in linguistics and cognitive science, which postulates that a particular spoken language's nature influences the habitual thought of its speakers.
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In addition, cognitive linguistics argues that language is both Sapir Whorf hypothesis inasmuch as language and cognition mutually influence one another and are both embedded in the experiences and environments of its users.
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The fact that Wikipedia also has no article with the title " Sapir-Whorf hypothesis " suggests-at least to me-that somebody on here must be of a similar mindset.
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The name is borrowed from, or homage to pioneer cultural-linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf ( April 24, 1897 July 26, 1941 ), famous for the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.
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More recently, Humboldt has also been credited as an originator of the linguistic relativity hypothesis ( more commonly known as the Sapir Whorf hypothesis ), developed by linguists Edward Sapir or Benjamin Whorf a century later.
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Some of our categories must originate from another source than direct sensorimotor experience, and here we return to language and the Whorf Hypothesis : Can categories, and their accompanying CP, be acquired through language alone?
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The term " Sapir Whorf hypothesis " is considered a misnomer by linguists for several reasons : Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf never co-authored anything, and never stated their ideas in terms of a hypothesis.
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The Sapir Whorf hypothesis, which states that thought is inherently embedded in language, would support the claim that an effort to limit the use of words of language is actually a form of restricting freedom of thought.
