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Presentation 2016-12-18 14:15
[Invited Talk] The Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis and Japanology -- Are Japanese Inferior in Scientific Thinking Ability Due to Their Native Language? --
Yohtaro Takano (Meiji Univ) TL2016-62
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) In Japanology, it has been often claimed that the Japanese have difficulty in logical thinking because the Japanese language is illogical. An American psycholinguist, Alfred Bloom (1981, 1984), invoked the linguistic relativity hypothesis to claim that the Japanese and Chinese should be inferior to Westerners in their ability of scientific thinking because the Japanese and Chinese languages lack grammatical devices specialized in counterfactual and entification which is found in Indo-European languages, and presented experimental data that were purported to endorse this claim. The present speaker found a procedural flaw in Bloom’s experiment, reasoned that this flaw may have been responsible for the apparent better performance of the American college students than that of the Japanese and Chinese college students, and conducted an experiment proving that this reasoning was correct.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Japanology / linguistic relativity hypothesis / Sapir-Whorf hypothesis / Japanese language / thinking ability / counterfactual / entification /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 116, no. 368, TL2016-62, pp. 121-125, Dec. 2016.
Paper # TL2016-62 
Date of Issue 2016-12-09 (TL) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee TL  
Conference Date 2016-12-16 - 2016-12-18 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Room 303/304/305, Building #8, Waseda University 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Theme 1: Language and Learning, Theme 2: Co-creation in a place， Emergence of meaning 
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Conference Code 2016-12-TL 
Language English (Japanese title is available) 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Title (in English) The Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis and Japanology 
Sub Title (in English) Are Japanese Inferior in Scientific Thinking Ability Due to Their Native Language? 
Keyword(1) Japanology  
Keyword(2) linguistic relativity hypothesis  
Keyword(3) Sapir-Whorf hypothesis  
Keyword(4) Japanese language  
Keyword(5) thinking ability  
Keyword(6) counterfactual  
Keyword(7) entification  
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1st Author's Name Yohtaro Takano  
1st Author's Affiliation Meiji University (Meiji Univ)
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Date Time 2016-12-18 14:15:00 
Presentation Time 45 minutes 
Registration for TL 
Paper # TL2016-62 
Volume (vol) vol.116 
Number (no) no.368 
Page pp.121-125 
#Pages 5 
Date of Issue 2016-12-09 (TL) 

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