Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

May 11, 2015

Words for Thought: How Language Influences Our Thinking (Or Doesn’t)

Many decades ago, two linguists, Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf, formulated a radical new idea for its time: the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, a controversial idea arguing that […]
August 26, 2014

I Spy with My Culturally Shaped Eye

At some point in your life, perhaps at the eye doctor or during a check-up by the school nurse, you have probably been asked to look […]