The Movie "Arrival" and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in Linguistics

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The use of the Sapir-Whof hypothesis in the movie 'arrival' has many meanings, most of which are developed mainly on the importance of language and communication. Eves Goddard is a curator and linguist of the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History and it is used in movies to show the importance of language as people do not know how it works I assert. That's not about aliens but about us. "(Penko). Language and communication play an important role in building peace all over the world. This movie wants us to see that the language difference is not a threat but a useful one that can even help the whole world. This can be seen when the political leaders of the film and other people are reluctant to communicate with foreigners and believe foreigners to risk dangers in the world, I try to convince you that you may save humanity.

"The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis was named after the two American linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Wolf, as linguists they recognize the importance of languages ​​for people and culture.Wolf said 1897 I was born in Winthrop Massachusetts until 1941 and later became a chemical engineer and firefighter. "(Http: /userwww.sfsu.edu/~rsauzier/Whorf.html) Then he In leisure time I studied linguistics and American Indian language. Influenced by the teachings of his leader, Edward Sapir, they developed a theory about the influence of language on the perception of the people of the world. They try to understand the relationship between language and culture, and vice versa. Edward Sapir and his student Benjamin Whorf believe that language determines culture. According to their theory, members of different cultures have different views of the world as they use different linguistics to explain it. This theory was later called the Sapir-Wolf hypothesis.