Language Influences Thought? Or the Reverse?

DOI

10.2991/icsshe-19.2019.88How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Whorfian Hypothesis, perception and thought, lexicon, expression, structure

Abstract

The Whorfian Hypothesis has been a source of controversy since it was first articulated both in its strong form ‘language determines thought’ and its weaker form ‘language influences thought’, and it has influenced disciplines beyond linguistics. This article intends to regard the relationship between language and thought from a different perspective: namely, how thought may determine language. It analyzes how thought determines language lexically, semantically and structurally.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Feng Li
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TI  - Language Influences Thought? Or the Reverse?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 5th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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