WHORFIAN HYPOTHESIS


Meaning of WHORFIAN HYPOTHESIS in English

Pronunciation: ' wo ̇ r-f ē - ə n-, ' hwo ̇ r-

Function: noun

Etymology: Benjamin Lee Whorf † 1941 American anthropologist

Date: 1954

: a theory in linguistics: one's language determines one's conception of the world

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