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Benjamin Lee Whorf Asks "Does Language Influence Thought?"

4/1940

In April 1940 American chemist, anthropologist and linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf published "Science and Linguistics," M.I.T.'s Technological Review, 42: no. 6 (April, 1940) 229-231, 247-248, in which he developed controversial ideas concerning linguistic relativity— the hypothesis that language influences thought.

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