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Does our language determine how we can think, or can we think about things our language can’t frame? In this week’s episode, we talk about linguistic determinism: who came up with the hypothesis, what its implications are, and whether a stronger or weaker version best matches the facts.
This is Topic #22!
This week’s tag language: Navajo!
Some further info about policies influenced by ideas linking language and thought:
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/native-american-languages-act-twenty-years-later-has-it-made-difference
http://www.anb.org/articles/14/14-00696.html (A biography of early linguist William Dwight Whitney, a strong proponent of such policies)
Or if you like Wikipedia, you can try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
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