Benjamin Lee Whorf's Thoughts on Thinking: On Language
03-25-2015“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.”
— Benjamin Lee Whorf
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Benjamin Lee Whorf's Biography
Benjamin Lee Whorf (April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist. Whorf is widely known for his ideas about linguistic relativity, the hypothesis that language influences thought. An important theme in many of his publications, he has been credited as one of the fathers of this approach, often referred to as the “Sapir–Whorf hypothesis”, named after him and his mentor Edward Sapir.
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