Gumperz, J. & Hymes, D. (1986). Directions in Sociolinguistics. NewYork: Basil Blackwell.

In their study, Gumperz and Hymes, claim that in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis there is a

systematic relationship between a person's linguistic categories and how that person

thinks and behaves in the world. It contends that there are no limits to the amount and

type of variety that may be expected between languages, including their semantic

systems, and that language has a whole deciding effect on cognition. Without language,

there is no thought. Language, according to this theory, determines thought. As a result, it

proposed that our mental processes are determined by the linguistic items we have in

mind.

Guthrie, A. (2011). Language and identity in postcolonial African literature: A case study of

Chinua Achebe's “Things Fall Apart”. Liberty University.

The author Abigail Guthrie, in her study, stated that an author's linguistic stereotypes can

affect his writing and encourage cultural prejudice in his paper “Language and Identity in

Postcolonial African Literature: A Case Study of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart”.

According to Guthrie, Achebe's literary sketch of his language attitude concludes that

Achebe wishes to preserve a realistic image of Africa by portraying pre-colonial African

archetypes in an honest, in-depth manner. Achebe works hard to achieve this goal,

creating characters and a rich narrative structure in the hopes of presenting a nation

worthy of acceptance and appreciation of Western bias.