Chuya was born to a Japanese-speaking mother and English-speaking father and is fluent in both languages. She recently participa
ted in a study of bilingual university students. When she took a personality test in Japanese the results were very different from those when she took the same test in English. According to Whorf, this difference is due to:
Linguistic determinism refers to the range of views whereby the way we think is determined by language. Linguistic determinism explains that our language and its structures determine our thoughts and human knowledge.
Since she took a personality test in Japanese the results were very different from those when she took the same test in English, then this difference is due to linguistic determinism.
