Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Humanities and Social Sciences

ENG423A: Current Issues in Linguistics

End Semester Report (Open Book)

Total Marks: 40

Date and Time of Release: Friday, May 07, 2021 (8:30am)

Date and Time of Submission: Friday, May 07, 2021 at 12:00 noon (1:10 pm for DAP)

Based on the reading/viewing list circulated on April 24, 2021, answer the following: 

1. How does neo‐relativism differ from the classical Sapir‐Whorf hypothesis? How are the two 
similar?                   (10 Marks) 
2. How does language shape thought? Discuss with empirical evidence from the domains of 
time, colour and gender.               (10 Marks) 
3. How does linguistic relativism relate to another mainstream 20th Century construct in 
linguistic thought known as linguistic universalism?                   (20 Marks) 

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