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needing words for thoughts?

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 9:06pm.

Alison asked, "Do we need words for things before you can conceive of them?" I mentioned something called the "Sapir Whorf hypothesis" in my section on Thursday; if you'd like to know more about this intriguing/ controversial idea that language determines thought, go to Daniel Chandler, The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and to Neil Parr-Davies, The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: A Critique.


 

 

 

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