Sapir Whorf Hypothesis & Relationship Between Space and Time in Language

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The paper will present a summary of the Sapir Whorf hypothesis, discuss research based upon this hypothesis and whether or not the body of work thus far has provided sufficient evidence to support the hypothesis. A brief explanation of the hypothesis, and of the research both supporting it and refuting it will be presented. Then some of the research done using the hypothesis on the relationship between language, time and space and the differences between different native speakers will be presented. Lastly a discussion on the validity of the hypothesis based on the previously presented research will conclude. 
 The basis of the Sapir Whorf hypothesis is that language effects thinking. There is a more extreme version of it, leading to linguistic determinism, that claims that language determines how one thinks. There is also a more moderate version, supporting linguistic relativity, which proposes that differences in language can lead to changes in thought among different speakers (Casasanto, 2008). Sapir supported the latter more moderate version, while his student Whorf supported the more extreme determinist thought (Kay & Kempton,1984).
 The proposed ideas expressed in Whorf’s writings can be seen as two hypothesis as presented by Brown, in Kay and Kempton (1984) review on the history of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the first claims that the differences in structure between languages will lead to a nonlinguistic cognitive differences between native speakers of different languages. Meaning, language impact how one acts or thinks based on it’s structure. The second hypothesis claims that ones world view is determined or strongly influenced by one’s native language and it’s structure. As Whorf was Sapir’s student, and Sapir was Boas’s they both ascribed to the Boasnian school of linguistic relativity (Kay & Kempton,1984).. 
 The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis since it’s

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