Benjamin
Whorf
- American Linguistic
- Principle of language relativity: "the structure of a human being's language influences the manner in which he understands reality and behaviors with respect to it….picture of the universe" "users of markedly different grammars are pointed by their grammars toward different types of observations. . . and hence. . . must arrive at somewhat different views of the world"
- Although he was an engineer, since little he took interest in linguistic. He studied the Nahuatl language in Mexico; on his return home he presented several influential papers on the language at linguistic conferences. He then studied at Yale University.
- language-----culture------cognition
“Language shapes the way we think,
and determines what we can think about
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”
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