Is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis dead?
"Language opens up possibilities of perceiving," Phillip Marchand writes, "but even it is not everything. Reality sometimes intrudes from outside language and changes things, and the person aware of more than one language can often spot this before others."Fifteen bilingual writers relfect on how language shapes reality and reality shapes language . . . .
.: Posted by Duane Bidwell on Monday, August 16, 2004
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