Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought (Bradford Books) by Dedre Gentner
The MIT Press | April 1, 2003 | English | ISBN: 0262072432 | 539 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and intense controversy. According to the strong version of this hypothesis, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis after the American linguists who propounded it, languages vary in their semantic partitioning of the world, and the structure of one's language influences how one understands the world.