TY  - JOUR
A1  - Haßler, Gerda
T1  - Humboldts Konzept einer sprachlichen Weltansicht und seine Stellung in der Geschichte des sprachlichen Relativismus
T2  - Aesthetics and Politics in Wilhelm von Humboldt
N2  - The  idea  of   a  linguistic  worldview  was  clearly  expressed in German national romantic thought of  the  early  19th  century,  where  language  was  seen  as  the  expression  of   the  spirit  of   a  nation.  Wilhelm  von  Humboldt  argued  that  every  language  shaped  the  world-view  of   its  speakers,  but  he  also  saw  a  possibility  to  improve  human  knowledge  in  the  co-action of  languages.
The  idea  of   linguistic  relativity  can  be  found  in  John  Locke’s  statement  that  words  interpose  themselves  between  our  understandings  and  the  truth  which  it  would  contemplate  and  apprehend.  In  the  18th  century,  we  can  find  formulations  that  our language accustoms us to arrange our ideas in a specific way, that some languages are more suitable for certain kinds of  thought, or that metaphors have significant influence on peoples’ thought. In the 20thcentury the Neo-Humboldtian school revitalised the idea  of   an  influence  of   language  on  thought  in  a reductionist way. At the end of  the 20th century, some authors,  for  example  John  J.  Gumperz  and  Stephen  C. Levinson, tried to rethink linguistic relativity and to prove it by empirical results.
Y1  - 2020
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/49640
UR  - https://odradek.cfs.unipi.it/index.php/odradek/issue/view/10
SN  - 2465-1060
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
SP  - 21
EP  - 63
PB  - Università di Pisa
CY  - Pisa
ER  -