If you ever visit Japan, don’t get excited if someone offers you a “blue apple” – it’s probably a boring old green one. As an ...

Linguistic determinism originally came from the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. For instance, if a language lacks a word to define a certain concept, a linguistic determinist would infer that speakers of ...

This mirrors the strong form of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in linguistics, which states that words and the language we use ...