sapirwhorfhypothesis萨丕尔沃尔夫假说_跨文化交际导论.docxVIP

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis 萨丕尔 - 沃尔夫假说 1 、 The philosophical basis of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is empirical and the theoretical background is structuralism 、 萨丕尔与沃尔夫就是语言相对论思想的集大成者。 2 、 While we reject the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, its weaker version is generally accepted by most scholars 、 尽管我们反对萨丕尔 - 沃尔夫假设的强假设 ,而大部分学者却普遍接受了其弱假设。 Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf, proclaimed that the structure ofthe language people habitually use influences the ways they think and behave, i 、e、 different languagesoffer people different ways of expressing the world around, they think and speak differently, this is also known as linguistic relativity、 Sapir and Whorf believe that language filters peoples perception and the waythey categorize experiences、 Thisinterdependence oflanguage and thought is now known as Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis、 Strong version weak version Strong version believes that the language patterns determine people s thinking and behavior; Weak version holds that the former influence the latter、 The study of the linguistic relativity or SWH has shed two importa nt in sights: There is nowadays a recognition that Ianguage, as code, reflects cultural preoccupations and constrains the way people think、 More than in Whorf days, however, we recognize how importa nt con text is in compleme nti ng the meanings en coded in the Ianguage、 Much was made of the In uit Ian guage where there is no precise equivale nt to the sin gle En glish word snow 、 Because snow is such an importa nt part of survival of people of the n orth, they had nin etee n differe nt words that varied accord ing to the con diti on of snow 、 At first, some argued that this was only a matter of what sizes and TOC \o 1-5 \h \z shapes of boxes are the words we use in which to put experie nces 、 In En glish, however, we have no sin gle word meaning the chemical, di-hydrogen oxide (H 2O)、 If you want to object and say, But we have the word water, let me point out that the w