Multidisciplinarity As a Verifi cation Searching Methodology (The Case of Whorf’s Hypothesis Refuted)

Abstract

The methodology which the paper presents is a way verification might grow its accuracy. The material to counter-evidence is Whorf's hypothesis, namely its strong version that claims a language determines the way its speakers think and create their cognitive categories. To provide a successive justification methodology the authors begin with explication of the logic which might rest in Whorf's mind, then they reveal weak points of the theory itself via linguistics- and semiotics-related arguments-against. Further they go to the philosophy of language presented in the article by J. Derrida and F. Girenok providing no accurate proof for they speak in the name of a generalization-oriented domain. The discipline to approximate language and thought correlation is cognitive psychology, the domain that applies experimental methods. The most accurate verification of thought and cognition primacy over language is found within the 5 principles of psychoneurophysiology. Thus, the authors both meet the requirement toward science verification and conclude beneficiaries to be philologists who could overview a logo-centered approach to language and speech analysis.