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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis - Coggle Diagram
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
foreignism
an item not yet fully naturalized into English and is used by English speakers to fill a conceptual gap in their language
conceptual gaps exist because different languages refer to the world using different classifications to the extent that some words are "untranslatable"
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Semiotics
Saussre: a language is structured on an underlying system of linguistic signs, in which meaning arises alrgely out of the relationship between the signs
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Rebuttals
Translatability
for although language may differ considerably in the way they express certain details, it is still quite possible to translate those details from language to another (Fishman, 1976)
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Universals
generative grammar : there are deep structures that are common to all languages (Fishmann, 1976), in relation to linguistic relativity, all cultures would be related and have similar realities which contrasts this hypothesis
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