The book reviews the new theory carefully and in language accessible to the general reader, and then subjects it to a detailed empirical examination.

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Neither Sapir nor Whorf formulated a definitive version of the hypothesis that bears their names, but in general the theory argues that the language we speak actually shapes our experience of reality.

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This research helped give rise to a theory that human language has its roots not in speech, but in hand gestures.

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