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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"linguistic determinism"”.
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The role of language in constructing consciousness in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
… thought and language -- Whorf's hypothesis of linguistic determinism -- Linguistic relativism -- Sociopolitics, oppression, and language.
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Translating Embodiment: A Look at Language and Cognition of Dance Performance from Studio to Stage
… appraisal and arousal, kinesthetic empathy, and linguistic determinism with an eye towards the dancing body. How might such scientific notions play into answering questions of corporeity and embodiment explored so exquisitely in dance creation and performance? How might we use the dancing body as …
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Listening to Language in Gadamer's Hermeneutics
… In other words, Gadamer does not believe in linguistic determinism.</p><p> The first chapter explores the conversation between Gadamer and communication studies by surveying what communication scholars have found significant for communication theory and practice in Gadamer's thought. The next …
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About the relation between implicit Theory of Mind & the comprehension of complement sentences
… FBs until the age of 4 years. According the linguistic determinism hypothesis, only the unique syntax of complement sentences provides the format for representing FBs. However, experiments measuring children’s looking behavior instead of their explicit predictions provided evidence that …
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A Positive Look at the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis; How this Effect Affects English
In this paper, I present the various views of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which is the idea that language affects the way we think and ultimately how we see the world. Developed by Benjamin Lee Whorf and Edward Sapir, the stronger version of this hypothesis argues that language determines thought, …