Lesson 6
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Epicene pronouns
gender-neutral pronouns
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
language has power and can control how you see the world
Mandarin Chinese, Finnish, Estonian
languages that have epicene pronouns in 3rd person singular
Linguistic relativity
people who speak different languages think differently from one another
Markedness
some morphological categories have a 'mark' and others are 'unmarked'
Linguistic determinism
the language we use determines the way we think