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As one of the most popular linguistic theories, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is rooted in "cultural relativism" and was based on the idea that "one's entire sense of reality shifts as one passes from one community to the next…" (O'Neill 2008).
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This is what is done by linguists, or linguistic scientists, persons devoting themselves to the scientific study of languages (as opposed to the popular sense of linguists as polyglots, persons having a command of several different languages).
The so-called Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and the position known as "linguistic relativity", became popular in both psychology and social anthropology in the mid 20th century.
He had a keen interest in linguistics; in the 1969 book Ting, tanke, tale he problematized linguistic questions in a popular scientific way.
But the linguistic and logical conceptions popular among English-speaking philosophers since World War II may not be well suited to the analysis of emotion.
Among the computational intelligence techniques employed to solve classification problems, the fuzzy rule-based classification system (FRBCS) is a popular tool capable of building a linguistic model interpretable to users.
In the last decade, language trees have experienced a strong revival, especially in the public notion of linguistics as reflected in popular scientific literature and in articles addressed to a not exclusively linguistic readership 1.
A close analysis of the language of the classical-age poets reveals the liberal use of Turkish linguistic features, sometimes linked with popular and humorous effects, even to the point of self-parody.
The pork episode marks the book's first use of the concept of dreaming in Chinese, which comes from the popular notion that you've reached a linguistic milestone when you start dreaming in a foreign language.
It is not at all unusual for heads of state to borrow linguistic terms from sports or other popular pastimes.
The same linguistic features turn up in the most popular quotations.
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