Whorfianism

Whorfianism

• Whorfianism

• Differences can be due to :-

• Semantic/Structure
• View of the abstract world

Background

• Background

• Hindi (SOV) v/s English (SVO)

• Experiment

• Procedure
• Participants
• 8 Mess/Hall Workers (Hindi Speakers) and 21 X 2 Amazon Mechanical Turk HIT’s (English Speakers)

Background (Bihari Hindi v/s Standard UP/MP Hindi)

• Background (Bihari Hindi v/s Standard UP/MP Hindi)

• Bihari Hindi – Inanimate objects treated as
• Masculine
• Standard Hindi – Gender of the object depends on
• a set of rules
• Examples:- Baarish ho rha hai and Baarish ho rhi hai

• Experiment

• Procedure
• Participants – 10 1st Year IITK students from Bihar + 10 IITK students from UP/MP/Delhi

http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html

• http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html

• Linguistic Relativity – Lera Boroditsky (Galley – Article 00567)

• The Linguistic Survey of India, vol. v. part ii. (1903)

• Boroditsky, L., Schmidt, L., & Phillips, W. (2003). Sex, Syntax, and Semantics. In Gentner & Goldin-Meadow (Eds.,) Language in Mind: Advances in the study of Language and Cognition.

• Semantic structure in improvised communication, (CogSci2011)

• Marieke Schouwstra, et. al (Anouschka van Leeuwen, Nicky Marien, Marianne Smit, Henri�ette de Swart)