Chomsky Pinker Vs Whorf's Model
far more compelling, more substantiated by empirical evidence, and also more able to explain some of the complexities of language and culture. Even though children are not born speaking in full sentences, all children have the capacity for language development, the potential to learn verbal and written means of communication as well as non-verbal communication like gestures (Pinker). Yet linguists still grapple with whether semantics exist independently of language (the Pinker point of view) or whether semantics and linguistics co-create each other (Whorf’s perspective). As linguistics has employed more quantitative and empirical methods of data collection and analysis, it becomes increasingly possible to make more cogent arguments about the… Continue Reading...
