Kravchenko A. V. (2007) Гипотеза Сепира–Уорфа в контексте биологии познания [The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in the context of the biology of cognition]. Issues in Cognitive Linguistics 1: 5–14.
Kravchenko A. V.
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2007)
Гипотеза Сепира–Уорфа в контексте биологии познания [The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in the context of the biology of cognition].
Issues in Cognitive Linguistics 1: 5–14.
It is argued that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, epistemologically, finds proof in the renewed view of objectivity provided by U. Maturana’s theory of perception. In the context of the new epistemology of autopoiesis (biology of cognition) linguistic determinism becomes an inevitable consequence of structural determinism which defines humans as living systems.
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