Hopi time controversy
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title:
Hopi time controversy
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The Hopi time controversy is the academic debate about how the Hopi language grammaticizes the concept of time, and about whether the differences between the ways the English and Hopi languages describe time are an example of linguistic relativity or not. In popular discourse, the debate is often framed as a question about whether the Hopi have a concept of time. The debate originated in the 1940s when American linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf argued that the Hopi conceptualized time differently from
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Academic debate about conceptualization of time in Hopi language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_time_controversy
date created:
2012-09-26T13:12:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T15:22:28Z
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