How Language reconfigures Thought:

The Neo-whorfian Program Reconsidered

Authors

  • Antoni Gomila Illes Balears University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_arif/arif.202024952

Abstract

The empirical development of the neo-Whorfian programme has been very fertile in the last decade. In this work, I review the most outstanding studies within this programme, and discuss the results, in order to establish the version of the relativistic hypothesis that is vindicated. I argue that the conclusion best supported by the evidence is that language plays a reconfigurational role, transforming previous thinking capacities, in terms of greater abstraction and flexibility. The relativistic effects identified, though, don't support a grand conclusion regarding the importance of the cognitive differences that stem from linguistic differences among speakers of different languages.

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Published

2020-12-24

How to Cite

Gomila, A. (2020). How Language reconfigures Thought:: The Neo-whorfian Program Reconsidered. Analysis. Journal of Philosophical Research, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_arif/arif.202024952