Benjamin Lee Whorf
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A Cryptotype is a semantic or syntactic feature that does not have a morphological implementation, but which are crucial for the construction and understanding of a phrase.
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Language is a guide to behavior because its logic is transferred, through analogy, to other domains of human cognitive activity.
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Language is a guide to behavior in that its logic transfers across various domains. One can be forgiven for not realizing that a gas drum marked 'empty' still contains flammable gas.
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Language is not consciousness itself, but is rather a pervasive 'coloring' of consciousness. It is not deterministic but rather is a superficial embroidery upon deeper processes of consciousness, which are necessary before any communication, signaling, or symbolism whatsoever can occur.
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Linguistic relativity is the idea that patterns of grammatical structures give rise not to a language prison but to a 'provisional analysis of reality' and habits of mind.