Andere Sprache – anderes Denken: Eine Reflexion über die Beziehung von ‚sprachlich determinierter Weltansicht‘, ‚sprachlichem Relativitätsprinzip‘ und ‚Konstruktivismus‘

Abstract

Starting from the linguistic determinism, be determined which considers thinking and worldview of the language, leading the development of the principle of linguistic relativism, which states that different languages lead to different ways of thinking and different world views. Constructivist theories however are of the opinion that man has no direct access to reality, but the individual is construct them yourself. All approaches but the issues are common to interact whether and how language and thought, whether and what kind of world views allows language. In addition, there is agreement in the rejection of universal principles.

Keywords

• worldview
• language
• thinking
• reality