“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.” ThinkingWayLanguageCommunicationShapesDetermineLinguisticsLearnersForeign LanguageLanguage LearningHuman LanguageLinguistsLearning LanguageLanguage AcquisitionLanguages CommunicationCulture And LanguageLanguage Culture Author:Benjamin Lee Whorf
“We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way - an agreement that holds through our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.” WayLanguageCommunityPartyCuttingSpeechConceptsPatternsAgreementSignificanceOrganize Author:Benjamin Lee Whorf
