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And Arias, A. (1998). Claiming Collective Memory, pp. 70–79. 4. Although it is often referred to as the “Sapir-Whorf hypothesis,” Sapir and Whorf did not actually frame their theoretical claim as a testable hypothesis. To read more about Sapir and Whorf’s work and the relationship between language and thought, see Johnstone, B. (2008). Discourse analysis, pp. 36–43. 5. This is sometimes called linguistic determinism. 6. However, two things should be noted about the snow example. (1) Most of the Yup’ik Eskimo words for different kinds of snow are based on the same root form, with particles added onto the root to convey what type of snow it is.
Lakoff, G. (2004). Don’t think of an elephant, p. xv. 8. By frames Lakoff means “mental structures that shape the way we see the world . . they are part of what cognitive scientists call the ‘cognitive unconscious’—structures in our brains that we cannot consciously access, but know by their consequences: the way we reason and what counts as common sense. ” Lakoff, G. (2004). Don’t think of an elephant, p. xv. 9. Santa Ana, O. (2002). Brown tide rising, p. 298. 10. Varenne (1978) cited in Johnstone, B.
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