“萨丕尔—沃尔夫假说”解析

＂萨丕尔—沃尔夫假说＂又称语言相对论,它所涉及的语言和思维、文化关系问题从20世纪三四十年代提出之后,一直是语言学界争论不休的话题,也是人类学、语义学、语用学、社会语言学和心理语言学等学科所共同关心的课题。＂假说＂分为强式和弱式两种。强式即语言决定论,主张语言结构决定人的思维方式,并主导着感知行为,即语言决定思维、信念、态度等。弱式即语言相对论,主张语言只是在一定程度上影响思维,并不起制约或主导作用,只是在一定程度上起着模塑人的思维、影响人的思想的作用。

The Interpretation of Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, also called Linguistic Relativity, has been the common interest of those who study in anthropology, semantics, pratigmafics, sociolinguistics and phycholinguistics as well as in linguistics since the 1930s or 1940s. The Hypothesis has two versions： the strong versition and the weak versition. The strong versition holds language determines people＇s thought, belief and attitude; the weak version states language, only to some degree, influences not determines people＇s thought.