Comments on: How About a Little Linguistic Anthropology? http://globalspin.com/2004/08/how-about-a-little-linguistic-anthropology/ a glimpse into the tiny mind of Chris Radcliff Sat, 01 May 2010 03:53:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8 By: Deana http://globalspin.com/2004/08/how-about-a-little-linguistic-anthropology/comment-page-1/#comment-517 Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:31:07 +0000 http://globalspin.com/wp/2004/08/22/391/#comment-517 Yes, it IS Sapir-Whorf. Good call! I’ll look into that article. I’m teaching Language and Culture starting in January.

Am I the only one who pictures a Klingon when I think of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?

]]> By: steevo http://globalspin.com/2004/08/how-about-a-little-linguistic-anthropology/comment-page-1/#comment-516 Mon, 23 Aug 2004 18:22:41 +0000 http://globalspin.com/wp/2004/08/22/391/#comment-516 That’s the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in the stronger form, no? Language determines the way we think.

I read that the same thing is true of Australian aboriginal languages — that they don’t have words for numbers other than “one,” “two,” “few,” and “many.” It was supposedly shown, though, that their avility to do arithmetic is comparable to native English speakers when they learn English as a second language.

Here — found the article. “Language and Thought” by David Crystal. From __The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language.__ Cambridge University Press, 1987.

More accepted: Language can affect the ease with which we perform certain mental tasks.

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