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}
}
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… Expand
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