WHORFIAN HYPOTHESIS


Meaning of WHORFIAN HYPOTHESIS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈwȯr-fē-ən-, ˈhwȯr- ]

noun

Etymology: Benjamin Lee Whorf died 1941 American anthropologist

Date: 1954

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

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.