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- to linguistic relativism: the Whorf hypothesis; the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (/səˌpɪər ˈhwɔːrf/ sə-PEER WHORF); the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis; and Whorfianism...
- Lee Whorf (/hwɔːrf/; April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer best known for proposing the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis...
- Whorf is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941), American linguist Richard Whorf (1906–1966), American film...
- Richard Whorf (June 4, 1906 – December 14, 1966) was an American actor, writer and film director. Whorf was born in Winthrop, M****achusetts to Harry and...
- John Whorf (1903–1959) was an American realist artist who is best known for his watercolors. From his first exhibition in 1923 until the last in 1958...
- transcription delimiters. Whorf's law is a sound law in Uto-Aztecan linguistics proposed by the linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf. It explains the origin in...
- American linguist Benjamin Whorf to group the modern Indo-European languages of Europe with shared common features. Whorf argued that the SAE languages...
- Dinwoodie (2006:346) Whorf 1956e, pp. 148–52. Whorf 1956a. Whorf 1956c. Whorf 1938. Whorf 1938, pp. 276–278. Whorf 1956f, p. 217. Whorf 1946. Lee 1996, p...
- the strong form of linguistic relativity (po****rly known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis), which argues that individuals experience the world based on...
- interpretation of the linguistic relativity hypothesis, also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis or "Whorfianism", posits that a language's vocabulary (among...