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Sapir-Whorf-hypotesen

Sapir-Whorf-hypotesen Sapir-Whorf-hypotesen om, at sproget determinerer tænkningen og dermed kulturen, er opkaldt efter to amerikanske sprogforskere: antropologen og lingvisten Edward Sapir (1884-1939) og kemiingeniøren og amatørlingvisten Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941). Selvom visse elementer i hypotesen går tilbage til J. G. Herders og Humboldts ideer om kulturel diversitet, så er hypotesen en udvikling af kulturrelativismen, som […]

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Forfatter Hartmut Haberland

Emneredaktør Tina Thode Hougaard

Se også Kode Kulturel identitet Standardsprog, dialekt og sociolekt

Supplerende læsning

Sapir 1949 [2012], Stubbs 1997, Whorf 1956/2012, 1981

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