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Benjamin 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. Whorf saw this idea, named after him and his ...
Habitual tendencies or dispositions, a term, often used synonymously with bīja (‘seed’). It is found in Pāli and early Sanskrit sources but comes to prominence with the Yogācāra, for whom it denotes the latent energy resulting from actions which are thought to become ‘imprinted’ in the subject's storehouse-consciousness (ālaya ...
The Hopi time controversy is the academic debate about how the Hopi language grammaticizes the concept of time, and about whether the differences between the ways the English and Hopi languages describe time are an example of linguistic relativity or not.
Perseverative cognition[1][2] is a collective term in psychology for continuous thinking about negative events [3] in the past or in the future (e.g. worry, rumination and brooding, but also mind wandering about negative topics [4][5]). It has been shown to have physiological effects, such as increased heart rate, blood pressure and cortisol ...
For example, Pinker argues in The Language Instinct that thought is independent of language, that language is itself meaningless in any fundamental way to human thought, and that human beings do not even think in "natural" language, i.e. any language that we actually communicate in; rather, we think in a meta-language, preceding any natural ...
Anthropology. Edward Sapir (/ səˈpɪər /; January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American anthropologist - linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States. [1][2] Sapir was born in German Pomerania, in what is now northern Poland.
Jungian cognitive functions. Psychological functions, as described by Carl Jung in his book Psychological Types, are particular mental processes within a person's psyche that are present regardless of common circumstances. [1] This is a concept that serves as one of the foundations for his theory on personality type.
The term “thot” is an acronym for “that h** over there”—and no explanation is needed about why that's offensive and derogatory to call women. But, in a moment where the internet actually ...