How Relevant Is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to Contemporary Psycholinguistic Research?

The paper raises the question of whether the linguistic relativity proposal, also known as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, should be used as a frame of reference for modern research into the relationship of language to cognition. The question is discussed in the context of Whorf’s (1956) writings, with...

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Main Author: Jolanta Latkowska
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Silesia Press 2015-12-01
Series:Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition
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Online Access:https://www.journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/TAPSLA/article/view/5109