Part one of term paper
What would it be like for you to go to China or Russia, not knowing a word of their language? You would of-course be rather uncomfortable and quite lost in a language all so strange to your familiar. This is part of what the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis states except this hypothesis has a little more to do with language and culture. The Sapir-Wh ...

Part two of term paper
... world’ is to a large extent unconsciously built upon the language habits of the group. In my own words the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is stated as a world or culture being set around a language, all societies are distinct in their own ways. An easier way to understand it is of thinking of two different terms, linguistic determinism, our thinking is determined by language and by linguistic relativity, people who speak different language, perceive and think about the world quite differently. To ...