An article in The Economist discusses the impact of multilingualism on the personality of the speaker: Yet it is different to claim—as many people do—to have a different personality when using a different language. A former Economist colleague, for example,reported being ruder in Hebrew than in English. So what is going on here? Benjamin Lee Whorf, an American linguist who died in 1941, held that each language encodes a worldview that significantly influences its speakers. Often called “Whorfianism”, this idea has its sceptics, […]

Categories: Reports/Studies • Tags: Benjamin Lee Whorf, Guru Granth Sahib, language, Whorfianism