Languages, Thoughts And Realities?

Scholarly Paper aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Anglistik Linguistikeinseitig bedruckt Note 1 OttovonGuerickeUniversitt Magdeburg Institutfr fremdsprachliche ... » 

Scholarly Paper aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Anglistik Linguistikeinseitig bedruckt Note 1 OttovonGuerickeUniversitt Magdeburg Institutfr fremdsprachliche Philologien Veranstaltung Language and Cognition WS20022003 9 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis Sprache Englisch AnmerkungenThis paper analyzes Whorfs Hypothesis. It uses Nagels and Davidsons notionof concept scheme to refute Whorfs hypothesis in every way it could possiblybe interpreted. Furthermore it shows practical ways of how any possiblelanguage can effectively be translated into any other language. It creates abridge between Linguistics Philosophy Psychology and Epistemology theory ofknowledge. Abstract This paper analyzes Whorfs hypothesis that thinking isdetermined and limited by the language used. This hypothesis implies thatcertain thoughts can only be expressed in one language but not in another.Thus a text given in the first language that is about such thoughts could notcompletely be translated into the second one. In this paper Nagels andDavidsons notion of the concept scheme is used to refute Whorfs hypothesis inevery way it could possibly be interpreted. Furthermore it shows practicalways of how any natural language that could possibly exist or be designed inthe universe can effectively be translated into any other language. To answerall the questions that arise this paper creates a bridge between linguisticsphilosophy psychology and epistemology theory of knowledge. «