1
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Two ways of viewing the connection between language and thought
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“Language is a mirror” - It reflects our thought
“Language is a lens” - It focuses our thought
2
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The modern group of linguists studying the influence of language on thought
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Neo-Whorfians
Far less extreme than the original Whorf, their well-designed experiments reveal linguistic influence on seemingly unrelated reasoning
3
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The two sides of the language debate
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Culturalists, relativists, and Neo-Whorfians vs Nativists/Innatists and Universalists
Linguistics 210 & 400
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