Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Relativity

Language relativity (also known as the Sapir - Whorf hypothesis) is a general covering term that combines two basic concepts. The first concept is that languages ​​are relative. That is, they differ noteworthy in conceptual representation. The second concept is that the linguistic expression of the concept has some influence on the conceptualization of the cognitive domain. This is not necessarily via language. This thesis typically explores the treatment of language relativity in works representing cognitive linguistics, and explores classical and more modern (around 1980's) studies in linguistics, anthropology, and psychology I will investigate. First, we briefly outline the history of language relativity from Wilhelm von Humboldt to Benjamin Whorf. We will then discuss the role of literacy skills in cognitive and cultural development, folk classification and expression of language relativity.

Cognitive linguistics is a relatively modern field of linguistics. Founded by George Lakoff and Ronald Langacker. In 1987, Rakov created the term "cognitive linguistics" in his work "women, fire and dangerous things", one of his most famous works. Lakoff has written numerous publications discussing the role of various cognitive processes, including language use. In previous publications, "Role of grammar deduction" and "Linguistics and natural logic" are included.

The 1996 election edited by Gumperz and Levinson rethinks the publication of linguistic relativity theory and celebrates a new era of linguistic relativity, focusing on cognitive and social aspects. The book contains research on language relativism and the tradition of universalism. Levinson recorded an important language relativistic effect of the language conceptualization of inter-lingual space categories. In another study by Bowerman and Slobin, the role of the language in the cognitive process is addressed. Bowman shows that certain cognitive processes do not use languages ​​so much and are not affected by language relativity. Slobin explained another cognitive process named "Thinking to speak", a process of converting perceptual data and other types of pre-verbal perception into language communication.

Since the late 1980s, a new linguistic relativist investigated the influence of difference in language classification on cognition based on progress in cognition and sociolinguistics and found broad support of hypothesis in the experimental environment. The influence of language relativity is particularly in the field of spatial recognition and the field of social use of language, especially in the field of color perception. Recent studies have shown that color perception is particularly susceptible to language relativity when processed in the left hemisphere suggesting that this hemisphere depends on the language rather than the correct language . At the present time, most linguists support a balanced view of language relativity, the language influences some sort of cognitive process obviously, but the other processes are influenced by universal factors It is thought to receive.