Whorf
Americannoun
noun
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Whorf argued that this meant Hopi speakers had no concept of time and experienced what an English speaker might call “the passage of time” in a completely different way.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 18, 2023
In the 20th century, the American linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf elaborated this idea into a broader vision of how language structures thought.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2018
The Whorf Hypothesis, named after early 20-century linguist Benjamin Whorf, postulates that the language we speak affects the way we think.
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2013
Erickson sat on a stool and from the waist down, Whorf placed on her a white Christmas tree blanket.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2012
But 70 years on, it is surely time to put the trauma of Whorf behind us.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2010
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