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The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in linguistics, established by Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf in 1929, argues that language is culture and experience-based so that (Rusiyanadi, n.d.) "there are certain thoughts of an individual in one language that cannot be understood by those who live in another language." Essentially it argues that ...

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