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Sapir-whorf hypothesis
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| (used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.) |
| opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England. |
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| Sapir-Whorf hypothesis | |
| —n | |
| the theory that human languages determine the structure of the real world as perceived by human beings, rather than vice versa, and that this structure is different and incommensurable from one language to another | |
| [named after Edward Sapir (1884--1939), US anthropologist and linguist, and Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897--1943), US linguist] | |
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