Anthropology › Section F · Language and communication › Topic F.2
Language and the mind
Does the language you speak shape the way you think? Anthropologists have argued about this for a century. The answer emerging from research is subtle: language does not imprison thought, but it nudges what people notice, remember and find easy.
In this topic
- An ant on your northern leg
- Relativity and universals
- The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
- Two famous overstatements
- Evidence for the weak form
- Why the strong form fails
- Universals in colour terms
- Metaphors we live by
- Worked example: the turning table
- Worked example: testing a claim
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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