The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis—developed by two academics who greatly influenced the field of psycholinguistics—proposes that language not only reflects our thoughts, but also influences them.

But his work on Hopi was part of what would become known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It was not a new idea, but Whorf stated its relativistic principles forcefully. In his words, language ...

Otherwise known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, linguistic relativity is an umbrella term for various theories that explore the relationship between language and cognition. On the extreme end of ...