Claim
Linguistic relativity
Overview
claim that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition
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Philosophers who discussed Linguistic relativity
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Steven Pinker
- Kendall Walton
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Related ideas
- Cognition
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Franz Boas
- George Orwell
- George Berkeley
- Grammatical gender
- Philosophy
- Heraclitus
- Isaac Newton
- Immanuel Kant
- John Searle
- Indo-European languages
- Ethnography
- Idealism
- Inuit
- Language
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Mayan languages
- Middle Ages
- Augustine of Hippo
- Social constructivism
- Worldview
- Noam Chomsky
- Cratylus (dialogue)
Place in the tradition
Part of Cultural relativism.