The anthropologist Edward Sapir first brought the problem of language, culture, and perception into the one, and one of his students Benjamin Lee Whorf, an American linguist who worked in the first half of the twentieth century developed this idea further in his own research and writing.
Together, they were responsible for the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, which focus on the relationship between language and culture.
The hypothesis states that the structure of a language determines or greatly influences the modes of thought and behavior characteristic of the culture in which it is spoken.
Whorf claimed, based on his study of several languages that the language of a culture provides a window into how the members of that culture think.
More specially, he claimed that language determines how a culture looks at the world and that cultures that speak different languages as a result think about the world in different ways.
Language and culture
