Teagan Wolter
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Teagan Wolter is Associate Editor of Anthropology at Encyclopædia Britannica. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from UW-Madison and is finishing her dissertation in Central Asian archaeology at the University of Chicago.
Primary Contributions (11)
Whorfian hypothesis, in linguistics, a hypothesis given classic form by the American linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf stating that language influences thought and perception of reality. It is also called linguistic relativity, because it focuses on how different languages lead to differences in…
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