• DOI:10.1111/J.1467-9922.2008.00462.X
Corpus ID: 8908681

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Whorf? Crosslinguistic Differences in Temporal Language and Thought

@article{Casasanto2008WhosAO,
  title={Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Whorf? Crosslinguistic Differences in Temporal Language and Thought},
  author={D. Casasanto},
  journal={Language Learning},
  year={2008},
  volume={58},
  pages={63-79}
}

D. Casasanto

Published 2008

Psychology

Language Learning

The idea that language shapes the way we think, often associated with Benjamin Whorf, has long been decried as not only wrong but also fundamentally wrong-headed. Yet, experimental evidence has reopened debate about the extent to which language influences nonlinguistic cognition, particularly in the domain of time. In this article, I will first analyze an influential argument against the Whorfian hypothesis and show that its anti-Whorfian conclusion is in part an artifact of conflating two… CONTINUE READING

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