Jabal al-Lughat

In all the debate around "Whorfian" effects of language on cognition, one relatively well-known case has received oddly little att...

Lately the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - that the language you speak influences the way you think - has had a bit of a revival; investigators suc...

The nice thing about French, from an English speaker's perspective, is that its lexical structure is so much like that of English that y...

Pop Whorfianism (usually in forms that Whorf would have been the first to laugh at) is something I usually associate with a slightly hippy-i...