Tag: semantic drift

• The Linguistic Pregnancy

  What is pregnancy? What’s in a name, for that matter..? Is it true that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, or is there something in the name itself that alters and affects that to which it refers? Neo-Whorfianism, in other words… For example, the Chinese word for what we in English…

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  June 26, 2014

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  Benjamin Whorf, culture, language, language theory, linguistic, linguists, meaning, name, Neo Whorfianism, pregnancy, semantic drift, transliterations, Whorfianism, words