Alessandro DurantiThinkers

Linguistic relativity is a forceful argument along the lines of Heidegger's argument; namely that we do not speak language, but language speaks us.

Linguistic relativity forces us to think about the power of words and the relative freedom we have to transcend the world as constructed through discursive practices.

Linguistic relativity speaks to the core of the anthropological enterprise, to the limits of our ability to understand who we are and what we do.