{"id":9412,"date":"2019-05-22T16:18:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/whorfian_hypothesis_-or_linguistic_relativity\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:18:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:18:44","slug":"whorfian_hypothesis_-or_linguistic_relativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/whorfian_hypothesis_-or_linguistic_relativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Whorfian hypothesis (or linguistic relativity)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The proposal that language, by providing habitual modes of expression, predisposes people to see the world in a certain way \u221a\u00b1 different for different languages \u221a\u00b1 and thus guides their thinking and behaviour. Sometimes referred to as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis after the anthropologist Edward Sapir (1884-1939) and his student, the linguist Benjamin L. Whorf (1897-1943) who formulated it in the 1920s<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>. See Linguistics, Psychic unity of mankind, Relativism (or cultural relativism), Universalism<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposal that language, by providing habitual modes of expression, predisposes people to see the world in a certain way \u221a\u00b1 different for different languages \u221a\u00b1 and thus guides their thinking and behaviour. Sometimes referred to as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis after the anthropologist Edward Sapir (1884-1939) and his student, the linguist Benjamin L. Whorf (1897-1943) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/whorfian_hypothesis_-or_linguistic_relativity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whorfian hypothesis (or linguistic relativity)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}