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Benjamin Whorf (1897-1941) hypothesised that the particular features of a language affect the way its speakers think. This study tested a rather strong version of such an hypothesis in the semantic domain of motion, and found no evidence supporting the Whorfian paradigm.
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This page is a summary of: Evidence against Whorfian effects in motion conceptualisation, Journal of Pragmatics, May 2010, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.09.017.
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