LINGUISTIC RELATIVITIES written by : john leavitt Presented by : - Ardi Pranata - Sri Kurnia Asih

The meaning of linguistic relativities Is a somewhat scientific term for the ways that humans use language.

The Figure of Linguistic Relativities Franz Boas Edward Sapir Benjamin lee whorf People speak with different way, because their language is different.The Language offer the way to show every meaning that different.

Language Thought

Before Boas Herder Every language can reflect the world with certain way. That is different between one language to another language. They think that find the relation between language and history, by using voice and gramartical from linguistic history. He believe that the mental quality of society and their culture can determine their language. he try to render linguistics more rigorous by defining its psychological fondations. language is often virtually reduced to number terms. Humboldt Hyeman syental Evolutionism Romanticsim ( the brother August and Friedrich von Sclegel

Universal, particular, and relativity Language as a human faculty manifests itself in the form, and solely in the form of specific systems, distinct languages. One of the most striking universals of language. is its diversity - not an unlimited diversity, but a tremendous diversity nonetheless.

Boas and boasian linguistics Boasian principles Boas, science, and linguistics Sapir, Lee, Whorf Sapir, Whorf, and Einstein

Boasian principles The boasian rejected the evolutionist package on every level : they held that each language deserves to be treated on its own terms, that the specifics of each language are important, and that each linguistic system orients the habitual thought of it users.

Boas, science, and linguistics Boas himself was intensely aware of the tension, particularly in nineteenth century German thought, between the positivist and universalist explanatory procedures and objectivist goals of the natural sciences and the particularist and essentialist interpretive procedures of what were called the spiritual sciences.

Sapir, Lee, Whorf Edward Sapir (1884–1939), who was initially trained in literature, had a strong sense of the poetry of linguistic sound and patterning as well as an abiding concern for individual experience, for how languages were lived by human subjects. Demetracopoulou Lee (1905–1975) in her work onWintu, a Penutian language of northern California, and the remembered traditional culture of its speakers. Bejamin Lee Whorf is sapir’s student, actualized sapir’s view in extended analyses of a small number of languages.

Sapir, Whorf, and Einstein Both Sapir and Whorf refer to Einstein’s theory of relativity. the idea as having implications similar to Einstein’s principle of physical relativity.

Beside boas : structuralism and neoromanticism Structuralism have come up with some formulations that sound very much like determism of thought by language. Then Neoromantic linguistic which sought to make explicit patterns of meaning are implicit in the vocabulary and to a degree in the grammar of given language.

After boas : the near-death and rebirth of linguistic relativity Boas died in 1942, after he died it returns of linguistic relativity. Continuing research on the implications of linguistic variation took a number of forms. Ethnosemantics. Relativity of use. Grammatical nuance and ethnopoetics. Semiotic functionalism.

Conclusion Language and thought can’t be disapareted each other. Because that determine human’s thought is language.