摘要
语言相对性原理,学界通常俗称"沃尔夫假说"。事实上,这是一种描写性公理;作为一种重要的理论,它反映的是美国人类语言学家根据人类语言的多样性而揭示出的语言与思想之间的关系的认识。几十年以来,世界学界站在不同的立场采用不同的方法对这一理论及其所反映的思想进行了各种各样的探讨和解释,足见其意义的深远。从人类文化语言学的视角审视该原理的理论背景和研究演变有其历史必要性。
Principle of Linguistic Relativity, non-technically also known as the Whorl-Hypothesis or the Sapir-Whorf-Hypothesis, is actually a descriptive axiom for the relation of language to thinking. By the American anthropological linguists within the Boasian Tradition, this axiom, as an important theory, was formulated upon the base of an understanding that human languages are of diversity. For a period of decades, the scholarly world has made expounding and interpretations of various kinds on the theory accordingly, hence its current significance. This paper, in perspective of anthropological linguistics, presents an exploration of the origin and evolution of the principle. And furthermore, it makes an examination of the framework of references and conceptions of the principle.
出处
《烟台大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》
CSSCI
北大核心
2008年第3期114-118,共5页
Journal of Yantai University(Philosophy and Social Science Edition)
关键词
语言相对性原理
鲍阿斯传统
语言与思维
语言世界观
认知移用
the principle of linguistic relativity
the Boasian tradition
language with thinking
linguistic worldview
cognitive appropriation
