Sapir-Whorf hypothesis 萨丕尔-沃尔夫假说_跨文化交际导论

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis萨菲尔沃尔夫假说1.the philosophical basis of the sair-whorf hypothesis is empirical and the theoretical backgrounds is structuralism。萨菲尔和沃尔夫是语言相对论的集合体。2.while wereject the strong version of the sair-whorf hypothesis，its weaker version is generally accepted by most scholars。尽管我们反对塞普沃尔夫的假设的强烈假设，大多数学者还是大体上接受了那个弱假设。Sapir-Whorf hypothesisL Edward sair and Benjamin whorf，proclaimed that the structure of the language people habitualy use influences the ways they think and behavel sair and whorf believe that language filters people s perception and the way they categories experience . this interdependence of language and tthe way they categories experience . thisStrong version weak versionl strong version believes that the language patterns determine people s thinking and behavior；l weak version holds that the former influence the later。-the study of the linguistic relative or SWH has shed two important insights :l there is nowledgmays a recognition that language，as code，reflects cultural preoccupation s and constrains the way people think .L more than in whorfs days，however，werecognize how important context is in complement ing the meaning s encoded in the language。much was made of the inuse language where there is no precise equivalent to the single English word snow . because snow is such an important part of survival of people of the north，they had nintern different words that varied according to the conditionAt first，some argued that this was only a matter of whatsizes and shapes of boxes are the words weuse in which to put experiences .In English、however、we have no single word meaning the chemical，di-hyrogen oxide (H2O)。If you want to object and say， but we have the word water，Let me point out that the word water does not apply to conditions of H2O woFrom the time we are born，we are inndated with thousands of bits of information per second，as sound，smell，touch，temperatureThey are many and random。in themselves，they have no meaningless。it is only through our interaction with other human beings that we begin to apply meaning，and web start to put a range of different inf