Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Breakdown

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of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis you’ll need a few examples. My father came to America to go to college in 1966. He had grown up in Malaysia with their culture and language. My father grew up as a bilingual speaker, knowing the Chinese language from his parent’s upbringing and the schooling in Malaysia taught him some English, yet his English was not quite perfect. When my Dad came to America he had trouble adjusting to the English way of speaking. He knew what the basic words were and how to carry on a normal conversation but he didn’t have an understanding of a lot of the words in the English language. He may have heard the word and used it here and there but he never quite knew what it meant, so he had to do whatever possible in order for him to survive and relate to the culture of Americans. In order for him to make it in an American society he related to a dictionary and read all the way through it, eventually understanding the meaning of words he had often heard, ...

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