Benjamin Atwood Lee Whorf (/ hwɔːrf /; April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer [1] best known for proposing the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. He believed that the structures of different languages shape how their speakers perceive and conceptualize the world.

2025年1月16日 · Benjamin Lee Whorf was an American linguist known for his linguistic relativity hypothesis, also called the Whorfian or Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. His hypothesis states that language influences or determines thought and perception.

2023年9月1日 · The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that the grammatical and verbal structure of a person's language influences how they perceive the world. It emphasizes that language either determines or influences one's thoughts.

Benjamin Lee Whorf (April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist, anthropologist, and chemical engineer. Although he never took an academic appointment, his work greatly influenced studies of language, culture, and thinking.

2018年5月11日 · American linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) is remembered for a group of speculative ideas about thought and language that remain controversial but have exerted strong influence on popular scientific thinking.

2023年8月27日 · The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, also known as linguistic relativity, refers to the idea that the language a person speaks can influence their worldview, thought, and even how they experience and understand the world.

2023年9月5日 · Developed in 1929 by Edward Sapir, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (also known as linguistic relativity) states that a person’s perception of the world around them and how they experience the world is both determined and influenced by the language that they speak.

In an article written in 1937, posthumously published in an academic journal (Whorf 1956: 87–101), Whorf clarifies what is most important about the effects of language on thought and world-view.

2025年1月2日 · Whorfian hypothesis, in linguistics, a hypothesis given classic form by the American linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf stating that language influences thought and perception of reality. It is also called linguistic relativity, because it focuses on how different languages lead to differences in perception.

Benjamin Lee Whorf (April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist. Whorf is widely known for his ideas about linguistic relativity, the hypothesis that language influences thought.