In questo articolo metteremo a tema la questione del relativismo linguistico, inerente la misura in cui il possesso nativo di una data lingua interferisca con la formazione del pensiero (individuale e sociale) e quindi le modalità della sua connessione col sistema culturale soggiacente.
The naïve intuition that languages are different, and that each of them offers a “vision of the world”, becomes an unscientific statement – opposed to a universalism – save as it is explained in the framework of a theory of language and languages. The 20th century crusade against the pros and cons of linguistic relativity often misunderstood the hypothesis by Humboldt, Boas, Neo-Humboldtians and even by Sapir, emphasizing a “Whorfian relativism” flowing into a trivial determinism.
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