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LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY HYPOTHESIS

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Date Issued:
1973
Summary:
Although interest in the linguistic relativity hypothesis seems to have waned in recent years, this thesis attempts to assess the available evidence supporting it in order to show that further investigation of the hypothesis might be most profitable. Special attention is paid to the fact that anthropology has largely failed to substantiate any claims that correlations between culture and the semantics of language do exist. This has been due to the impressionistic nature of the studies in this area. The use of statistics and hypothesis testing to provide more rigorous methodology is discussed in the hope that employing such paradigms would enable anthropology to contribute some sound evidence regarding the hypothesis.
Title: THE LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY HYPOTHESIS.
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Name(s): NATHAN, MICHELE.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Early, John D., Thesis advisor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of Anthropology
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1973
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 115 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Although interest in the linguistic relativity hypothesis seems to have waned in recent years, this thesis attempts to assess the available evidence supporting it in order to show that further investigation of the hypothesis might be most profitable. Special attention is paid to the fact that anthropology has largely failed to substantiate any claims that correlations between culture and the semantics of language do exist. This has been due to the impressionistic nature of the studies in this area. The use of statistics and hypothesis testing to provide more rigorous methodology is discussed in the hope that employing such paradigms would enable anthropology to contribute some sound evidence regarding the hypothesis.
Identifier: 13615 (digitool), FADT13615 (IID), fau:10455 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.
Subject(s): Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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