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An influential hypothesis effectively expressed by Benjamin Lee Whorf in the late 1930s and early 1940s suggests that language not only serves to communicate what we perceive in the rest of the world but also influences what we literally perceive.
Nach der viel beachteten Hypothese, die Benjamin Lee Whorf Ende der 1930er Jahre vertrat, dient Sprache nicht nur dazu, unsere Wahrnehmungen vom Rest der Welt mitzuteilen, sondern sie beeinflusst auch, was wir überhaupt wahrnehmen.
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