Language in Society
Mohammad Halili; Zulkhaeriyah
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The hypothesis starts when Whorf according to his research argues that the Hopi people in Arizona do not conjugate verbs into past present and future tenses as English speakers do and that their words for units of time like day or hour were verbs rather than nouns From this finding he believes that Hopi people do not see time as a physical object that can be counted in minutes and hours as contrast to English speakers Hopi people according to Whorf view time as a formless process Others than account that Hopi people do not have any concept of time Green 2023 The other example of how the language affects reality is Mandarin language As it is true that Mandarin writing system starts from up to down Mandarin people perceive up as the past and down as the future For them future time such as next week literally means down week A part of Mandarin writing system style consequences Mandarin people perform better in temporal information processing Temporal information is processed faster if it is organized in a way that matches their language The hypothesis starts when Whorf according to his research argues that the Hopi people in Arizona do not conjugate verbs into past present and future tenses as English speakers do and that their words for units of time like day or hour were verbs rather than nouns From this finding ...he believes that Hopi people do not see time as a physical object that can be counted in minutes and hours as contrast to English speakers Hopi people according to Whorf view time as a formless process Others than account that Hopi people do not have any concept of time Green 2023 The other example of how the language affects reality is Mandarin language As it is true that Mandarin writing system starts from up to down Mandarin people perceive up as the past and down as the future For them future time such as next week literally means down week A part of Mandarin writing system style consequences Mandarin people perform better in temporal information processing Temporal information is processed faster if it is organized in a way that matches their language
