The Influence of Language on Thought Study Benjamin Whorf Hypothesis and Edward Sapir

Abstract

Benjamin Whorf and his colleagues, Edward Sapir, propose a hypothesis about the relationship between language and thought. They offered the hypothesis that language affects the human mind. Vocabulary which is owned by the person determines how he thinks. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and presents something that is very challenging to be explored further. Although including the controversy among researchers, Some aspects of the topics that affect the mind needs to be identified further, such as identification of aspects that affect the language areas of spatial reasoning (spatial reasoning) and aspects of language that Affects the reasoning of other thoughts (reasoning about other minds).

Keywords: Language, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, linguistic relativity, linguistic determinism

JEL Classification: Z00