What if our language isn't just shaping our sentences - it's scripting our reality? The theory of linguistic relativity explains this rhetorical question that the language we speak doesn't just ...

In his book “The Language Instinct,” Steven Pinker takes the same road as Deutscher: dramatically debunking a claim Whorf never made (linguistic determinism) then proceeding to agree with the ...

Having fallen in love with Italian, she proceeds to acquire it as a literary vehicle: an act of postcolonial defiance (or deviance), setting herself free from the linguistic determinism into which she ...

So-called “linguistic determinism” was first proposed in 1950 but has been hotly debated ever since. “It is a very surprising and very important result,” says Lisa Feigenson, a ...