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The Role of Language in Thought and Communication
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According to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, language:
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determines the way we think about the world.
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The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, also known as the linguistic relativity hypothesis, is the idea that the structure of a language affects the way its speakers conceptualize the world. In other words, the language we speak shapes the way we think about reality.